v. Obs. rare. [f. Achill-es, see prec. (cf. to hector) + -IZE, as in Gr. ποιητίζ-ειν to play the poet, and Eng. tyrannize.] To play Achilles with, to chase as Achilles did the Trojans.
1672. Marvell, Rehearsal Transp., I. 217. He Hectors and Achillizes all the Nonconformists.
1673. [R. Leigh], Transpr. Rehears’d, 20. You would expect that he had Hector’d and Achilliz’d ’em all out of the Pit.
