macadamize

verb

Etymology: From macadam + -ize, after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam who pioneered this method of road construction around 1820.

1. To cover (a road) with macadam (small, broken stones) so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

   “Lo there what mix’d conditions run! The orphan lad; the widow’s son; And Fortune’s favour’d care— The wealthy born, for whom she hath Mac-Adamized the future path— The Nabob’s pamper’d heir!”

   “1860, Review of Erastus C. Benedict, A Run Through Europe, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume 21, p. 546, He pointed to the macadamized streets about that great hospital, and said, “The managers applied to the Emperor to macadamize the streets, to prevent the noise, and he did it. He does all that is asked of him.” Some say, however, that the Emperor is so ready to macadamize, because paving stones are so convenient in revolutionary barricades.”