prodigalize
English
Etymology
prodigal + -ize
Verb
prodigalize (third-person singular simple present prodigalizes, present participle prodigalizing, simple past and past participle prodigalized)
- To spend lavishly.
- 1834, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii
- Cabinets of gems , each cabinet itself a gem , filled up the interstices of the columns ; the most precious woods lined the thresholds and composed the doors ; gold and jewels seemed prodigalized all around
- 1834, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii
References
- prodigalize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913