genteelize (jenteliz)

t.; pret. and pp. gen teelized, ppr. genteelizing. [ A man cannot dre but his ideas get cloth'd at the same time; and if he dre es like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination genteelized along with him. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, ix. 13. genteelly (jen-tēl'li), adv. In a genteel manner; in the manner of well-bred people. Most exactly, negligently, genteelly dre 'd! Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, ii. 1. 3. Polished; refined. The goos with hire facounde gent . Chaucer , Parliament of Fowls, 1. 558. gent2 (jent), n. [Abbr. of gentleman , first used in the 16th century, prob. at first with some ref. to gent1 , a., but in more general use taken up in speech from the written abbr. " gent . " in law records, lists of names, etc., and in plays,