Meaning of palliardize | Babel Free

Definitions

To engage in lechery or lewdness; to fornicate.

Examples

“Sardanapalus, son to Ocrazapes, Who wallowed in all voluptuousness, – That palliardizing sot that out of doors Ne'er showed his face, but reveled with his whores, Did wear their garbs, their gestures imitate, And […]”

“T. Milles in 1619 records that Charlemagne's eldest daughter was found palliardizing (paillardising) with . . . Eginhard, his secretary. A straw shows which way the wind blows.”

“My point is not that Donne was rationalizing his own (conjectural) palliardizing; elsewhere he lauds neverending mutuality and obviously he went to great lengths to make such a legally constraining match.”

“Tonight, for instance, now that Bert has been here, I listen to the piercing screams of palliardizing cats without self-pity. Another of these “posthumous” poems, “Glad,” written in 1965, was a second-person address […]”

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