œconomize

English

Etymology

œconomy +‎ -ize

Verb

œconomize (third-person singular simple present œconomizes, present participle œconomizing, simple past and past participle œconomized)

1. Obsolete spelling of economize
   • 1780, Edmund Burke, Mr. Burke’s Speech, in The Works of Edmund Burke, G. Dearborn, volume I, page 289:

     If therefore we aim at regulating this household, the question will be, whether we ought to œconomize by detail, or by principle ? The example we have had of the success of an attempt to œconomize by detail, and under establishments adverse to the attempt, may tend to decide this question.