pilgrimize

English

Etymology

Verb

pilgrimize (third-person singular simple present pilgrimizes, present participle pilgrimizing, simple past and past participle pilgrimized)

(obsolete) To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.
- c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  Fellow Onion, I'll bear thy charges, and thou wilt but pilgrimize it along with me to the land of Utopia

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pilgrimize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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