Definition of "misanthropise"

misanthropise

verb
third-person singular simple present misanthropises, present participle misanthropising, simple past and past participle misanthropised
1. Alternative form of misanthropize
  Quotations
  Selfishness civilises, monopolises, and misanthropises.
  1871, Joseph Longland, Bernard Alvers and the War witch, page 79
  Disgusted with the world and worldlings, I drove down to an estate of my father's, in Suffolk, determined to “misanthropise” and be romantic ; but all my plans were disconcerted by the “Large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands” of Miss Emily Hathenden, whose estate bordered on my own.
  1888, The Lady's Book - Volumes 6-7, page 243
  The older man, whose life has been a failure, notwithstanding his large measure of ability and what must be called personal magnetism, crossed the young one's path when the latter was suffering from a disappointment in love for which he purposed abandoning the world to misanthropise in a distant solitude.
  1891, F. Mary Wilson, A Primer on Browning, page 190