different between solemnise vs solemnize

English

Etymology

solemn +? -ise

Verb

solemnise (third-person singular simple present solemnises, present participle solemnising, simple past and past participle solemnised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of solemnize.

Anagrams

• Leonesism, Seminoles

English

Alternative forms

• solemnise (UK)

Etymology

From Old French solemnisier, from Medieval Latin solemnizare, from Latin solemnis.

Pronunciation

Verb

solemnize (third-person singular simple present solemnizes, present participle solemnizing, simple past and past participle solemnized)

1. (transitive, US) To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.

   The couple chose to solemnize their relationship in a secular ceremony, instead of having a wedding.

   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another.
2. To make grave, serious, and reverential.
   • September 27, 1873, John Campbell Shairp, "Wordsworth's Three Yarrows", in Every Saturday

     Wordsworth was solemnized and elevated by this his first look on Yarrow.

   • 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

     Every Israelite […] arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem […] and prayed.

Anagrams

• lemonizes