(transitive) To give great joy, delight or pleasure to. / (transitive, rare) To give too much joy to. / (intransitive, obsolete) To take too much pleasure (in something).

plural of OAP

simple past tense and past participle of antithesize

(historical) A type of javelin with a barbed tip, used by the Franks and the various Germanic tribes in the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages.