The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attitudinize \At`ti*tu"di*nize\, v. i. To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.
Maria, who is the most picturesque figure, was put to
attitudinize at the harp.
--Hannah More.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1784, from attitudinal + -ize. Related: Attitudinized; attitudinizing.
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To assume an affected, unnatural exaggerated attitude or pose.
WordNet
v. assume certain affected attitudes [syn: attitudinise]
Usage examples of "attitudinize".
We are compelled to let several English sailors pass before us, decked out in their white drill clothes, fresh, fat, and pink, like little sugar figures, who attitudinize in a sheepish manner around the shafts of the columns.
I have seen the goats on Mount Pentelicus scatter at the approach of a stranger, climb to the sharp points of projecting rocks, and attitudinize in the most self-conscious manner, striking at once those picturesque postures against the sky with which Oriental pictures have made us and them familiar.
One of the rare women who never pout or attitudinize, she could fling her glove gracefully-- one might add, capturingly under every aspect, she was a handsome belligerent.
He posed, attitudinized and vapored, so that the camp and the country were filled with stories of the wonderful coolness with which he contemplated his approaching fate.
Every object attitudinizes, to the very mountains and stars almost, under the refractions of this wonderful humorist, and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day.