fustianize

English

Etymology

fustian +‎ -ize

Verb

fustianize (third-person singular simple present fustianizes, present participle fustianizing, simple past and past participle fustianized)

1. (intransitive, dated) To write or utter pretentious statements.
   • a. 1894, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet's Lot:

     What is a poet's love? — / To write a girl a sonnet, / To get a ring, or some such thing, / And fustianize upon it.

   • 1915, Marketing Communications, volume 92, page 11:

     When they talk war they amuse the soldier and when they fustianize about advertising, they make such statements as, “Advertising Is Literature" or “Advertising is the greatest force in modern business," which it is not.