attitudinize

1. (transitive)Examples: "In Greenwich, there were many gravelled walks, unshrubbed except for the nurses who dotted them, silent and attitudinized as trees."BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "While she, one hand on his arm, had been attitudinizing her dutiful gratitude, he—as she suddenly realized—had been deciding to rid her of Fordham [her estate manager]. No sentimentalizing, no attitudinizing there!"BritishEnglishOxfordUStransitive

3. (intransitive)Examples: "He had a great averſion to geſticulating in company. He called once to a gentleman vvho offended him in that point, "Don't attitudeniſe.""; "Charlotte, who has the beſt voice, was brought out to ſing, but was placed a little behind, as her perſon is not quite perfect; Maria, who is the moſt pictureſque figure, was put to attitudinize at the harp, […]"; "The elegant Sparkins attitudinized with admirable effect until the family had crossed the room."BritishEnglishOxfordUSintransitive

4. (intransitive)Examples: "[W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me?"; "In every line that he wrote Cicero was attitudinising for posterity, or reflecting on the effect of his conduct upon his interests or his reputation."; "There was a short typewritten paragraph on it, no more. It read, "I do not care to be in love with myself and there is no longer anyone else for me to be in love with. Signed: Roger (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Wade. P.S. This is why I never finished The Last Tycoon." / "That mean anything to you, Mrs. Wade?" / "Just attitudinizing. He has always been a great admirer of Scott Fitzgerald.[…]""BritishEnglishOxfordUSfigurativelyintransitive