Definition of "cowardize"

cowardize¹

noun
uncountable
1. Obsolete spelling of cowardice
  Quotations
  The ſecond property of your excellent ſherris, is the vvarming of the blood, vvhich before (cold & ſetled) left the lyuer vvhite & pale, vvhich is the badge of puſilanimitie and covvardize: but the ſherris vvarmes it, and makes it courſe from the invvards to the partes extreames, […]
  c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, [Act IV, scene ii]

cowardize²

verb
third-person singular simple present cowardizes, present participle cowardizing, simple past and past participle cowardized
1. (transitive) To render (someone or something) cowardly, to cause to become a coward.