Nonsensify vs Graphism - What's the difference?
nonsensify | graphism |
(transitive, and, intransitive, rare) To treat as, transform into, or create nonsense, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
* 1872 , A. B. Grossart, ed., The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell , Printed for private collection, "St. Peter's Complaint,"
* 1949 , Wilson Library Bulletin, vol. 24,
* 2001 , Phillip Harth et al.'', ''Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth , ISBN 9780299174804,
* 2002 , Alun Rees, "Golf: Maruyama outshone," Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), 27 Jul.:
nonsensify
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p. 51 (note for stanza 65, line 2):
- Turnbull again obscures and nonsensifies by misprinting "works" for "words."
p. 241:
- The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality.
p. 84:
- But Swift will have none of this. He nonsensifies Collins.
- The Dutchman, taking the 16th stage of the Tour de France after a solo effort which nonsensified all known laws of human endurance, smiled.
