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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of muscularize.

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Examples

  • This is a long speech, and I am a long man (laughter) and the business that I have spent my long life in has somewhat muscularized my capacity for talking and I do not wish to unduly prolong this gathering of the Empire Club.

    The Ontario Minimum Wage Bill 1921

  • A tolerably caliginose, nephelegeretous elderly gentleman, with infinite faculty of sermonizing, muscularized by long practice, and excellent digestive apparatus, and, for the rest, well-meaning enough, and with small private illuminations (somewhat tallowy, it is to be feared) of his own.

    The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

  • A tolerably caliginose, nephelegeretous elderly gentleman, with infinite faculty of sermonizing, muscularized by long practice and excellent digestive apparatus, and, for the rest, well-meaning enough, and with small private illuminations (somewhat tallowy, it is to be feared) of his own.

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

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