v. [See -IZE.] a. trans. To treat as a tailor; to reduce to tailorhood. b. intr. To do tailor’s work, to act the tailor; to sit cross-legged like a tailor.
1829. Scott, Lett. to Mrs. Hughes, 24 Aug. Here I am tailorizing as my good mother would have said, that is capeing, collaring [etc.].
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. viii. Our Clothes-thatch, and how it tailorises and demoralises us.
1832. Blackw. Mag., XXXI. 469. Did not Lord Melbourne—for we have not heard that he had been tailorized into humble submission—did he not kick him?
1873. Leland, Egypt. Sketch-Bk., 228. On the bunk where they all seem to be tailorising on their cross legs all day.
Hence Tailorization, acting as a tailor, tailoring.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xl. (1856), 365. We have worn out all our flimsy wardrobes, and have of late resorted to domestic tailorization.
