soberize

Johnson, while still uninformed of an entanglement it was impossible he should conjecture, attributed her varying humours to the effect of wayward health meeting a sort of sudden #ayward power: and imagined that caprices, which he judged to be partly feminine, and partly wealthy, would soberize themselves away in being unnoticed.

Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney 1842

I have given him, for this term, to soberize and methodize him a little, a private tutor; and this tutor has won his heart by indulging him in his problem passion.

The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

It was a face that, while it filled you with some melancholy foreboding of the changes and chances which must, in the inevitable course of fate, cloud the openness of the unwrinkled brow, and soberize the fire of the daring and restless eye, instilled also within you some assurance of triumph, and some omen of success, -- a vague but powerful sympathy with the adventurous and cheerful spirit which appeared literally to speak in its expression.

The Disowned — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

It was a face that, while it filled you with some melancholy foreboding of the changes and chances which must, in the inevitable course of fate, cloud the openness of the unwrinkled brow, and soberize the fire of the daring and restless eye, instilled also within you some assurance of triumph, and some omen of success, -- a vague but powerful sympathy with the adventurous and cheerful spirit which appeared literally to speak in its expression.

The Disowned — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838