v. rare–1. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] To act the Apollo; to decide oracularly on the merits of music, poetry, etc.
1835. Blackw. Mag., XXXVIII. 599/1. The literary patient under this influenza is in a delirium of prejudice, and admires, or condemns, ‘rabido ore,’ and imagines himself authorized to Apollonize.
