euphuize

From Euphu(es) +‎ -ize, after the titular character in John Lyly’s didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578);^[1] see euphuism for more.

euphuize (third-person singular simple present euphuizes, present participle euphuizing, simple past and past participle euphuized)

1. To write with euphuism.
   • 1894, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Appearance of Waverly:

     It is this artificial character of the style, as much as anything, that has led the critics into a unanimity of scorn, and made them declare (to euphuize the burden of their observations) that they would sooner be content to forego the author's wisdom than constrained to undergo his wit […]

• euphuism
• euphuistic

• “euphuize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.