Boswellism (bozwelizm)

[ We think that there is no more certain indication of a weak and ill-regulated intellect than that propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism. Macaulay, Milton. Boswellize (boz'wel-iz), v. i. or t.; pret. and pp. Bos well i zed, ppr. Bos well i zing. [ Boswell + -ize.] To write in the style of Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson; report or reproduce with minutene of detail or without the exercise of the critical faculty. One cannot help wishing that Bonstetten had Boswel lized some of these endle conversations, for the talk of Gray was, on the testimony of all who heard it, admirable for fulne of knowledge, point, and originality of thought. Lowell, in New Princeton Rev., I. 165.