ponderize
English
Etymology
ponder + -ize
Verb
ponderize (third-person singular simple present ponderizes, present participle ponderizing, simple past and past participle ponderized)
- (colloquial) To ponder.
- 1914, The American Flint - Volume 6, page 42:
- Well, now, just read this and then go and ponderize over it.
- 2005, Dave Oatley, 88% of Americans Are Abnormal:
- Lou's Clues props and characters include: • The Stinkin' Chair—Where Lou's buddy, Lugnut, sits and “ponderizes”
- (rare) To make weighty or ponderous.
- 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile Into Afrique, Asia, Indies, page 150:
- The sheepe are sweete, and fattest in the taile, whose weight oft ponderizes twenty pound, and many times their whole body.
- 1948, Connecticut. Bureau of Vocational Education, A Resource Unit in Home Economics Education:
- Modern Cryer cabinets are of sturdy, high grade, ponderized steel or some other rust resistant metal finished in enamel, easy to clean and durable.
- 1963, Saturday Review - Volume 46, page 68:
- An overabundance of slow, soulful numbers tends to ponderize the proceedings somewhat, but much of the singing is quite beautiful, and all of it is authentic.