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sultanize, v. rare.|ˈsʌltənaɪz|
[f. sultan n. + -ize.]
1. intr. To rule as a sultan or despot.
1772H. Walpole Let. to Mann 5 Mar., Fifty grand signors have lost their heads for one Charles I., and he might have kept his, if he had not sultanised.
2. trans. To make sultan-like or despotic.
1804J. Mackintosh Let. 14 Aug. in Mem. (1835) I. v. 212 The Governor..is..an..intelligent man; but every Englishman who resides here very long, has..his mind either emasculated by submission, or corrupted by despotic power. Mr. Duncan may represent one genus, the Braminised Englishman; Lord W― is indisputably at the head of the other, the Sultanised Englishman. 1876Hansard Commons 16 Mar. 103 It was not a wise thing to endeavour even in India to Sultanize the Crown. 1901Q. Rev. Jan. 73 The orientalised, in this case the somewhat sultanised, Englishman. |