dentize

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Etymology

From Latin dens, dentis (tooth).

Verb

dentize (third-person singular simple present dentizes, present participle dentizing, simple past and past participle dentized)

  1. (archaic) To teethe.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], London: [] William Rawley []; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      The old countess [] did dentize twice or thrice.

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