v. rare. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] trans. To render vernal or spring-like.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 500. By the amenity of their smile and their dallying jocundity, irradiating and vernalising whatever that smile and jocundity consecrate by tipping and touching.
1898. W. Watson, Poems, Lines Richmond Park, 165. The stored sunlight in your hair and eyes Would vernalise November, and renew the aged year.
