amorize, v. [am·or·ize]

To pay down love gradually in a series of payments applied to interest and principal.

I recently came across “amorize” while doing quality assurance on a collection of definitions. It was just too good not to put here. By the by, the sound clip is from Steve Martin’s The Man with Two Brains. If you haven’t seen it, your life is not yet complete.

5/17/2009: Updated to add

I'm just not going to have as much time for this sort of thing once I rejoin the gainfully employed...