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Germanize, v.|ˈdʒɜːmənaɪz|
[f. German a.2 + -ize.]
1. trans. To translate into the German language.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. ii. Babylon 624 The Dutch, hath him who Germaniz'd the story Of Sleidan. 1793Böttiger Let. in Mem. Dalzel (1862) 107, I have got a vast liking to Germanise them myself. 1814W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXIII. 354 Several of whose odes have been as happily Germanized by Ramler as his epistles have been by Wieland.
2. To make German in character, appearance, etc.
1609Heywood Lucrece iii. iv. Wks. 1874 V. 205 The first health shall be impos'd on you Valerius, and if ever you have beene Germaniz'd, let it be after the Dutch fashion. 1751Franklin Ess. Wks. 1890 II. 320 Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them. 1790By-stander 350 [Thus did Handel] Germanize us out of the little taste which, previous to his misty appearance, had begun to glimmer on us. 1812Visct. Folkestone Sp. Ho. Com. 10 Dec., He had seen our..officers adopting German dresses, and Germanizing themselves as much as possible. 1862Latham Channel Isl. iii. xiv. (ed. 2) 329 The process by which Normandy was Germanized. 1891Athenæum 22 Aug. 250/2 She [Japan] has endeavoured in turn to anglicize, americanize, gallicize, and germanize herself.
3. intr. To adopt German manners and customs; to become German (in style, tastes, habits, sympathies, etc.).
1665Locke Let. in Fox Bourne Life (1876) I. iii. 112 Our landlord, who is wont sometimes to germanize. 1801True Briton in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1802) V. 123 For, though our troops might fraternize, They'd poltrons be to Germanize. 1821Shelley Let. to C. Clairmont in Dowden Life II. 391 You are indeed Germanizing very fast.
Hence ˈGermanized ppl. a., ˈGermanizing vbl. n. Also ˌGermaniˈzation, the action or process of Germanizing; ˈGermanizer, one who Germanizes.
1743Lond. Mag. 89 He might..have described himself as a Germanized Englishman. 1760Foote Minor i. Wks. 1799 I. 240 Who knows whether this Germaniz'd genius has parts to comprehend..thy merit. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 100 A Latin word with a Germanized ending. 1825Syd. Smith Speeches Wks. 1859 II. 209/2 We should..have been..about as free as Denmark, Sweden, or the Germanised States of Italy. 1850H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 213 The Germanised style..consists..in an absurd imitation of German idiom and construction. 1850Fraser's Mag. XLII. 689 Should the Governments of Prussia and Austria persist in their present system of Germanization. 1860Lit. Churchman VI. 3/1 The maudlin and unavowed scepticism of one or other of these classes of Germanizers. 1879Froude Caesar xvi. 261 The Germanising of Gaul would lead..to fresh invasions of Italy. 1881Scribner's Mag. XXII. 97/1 The vague..notion that his [Carlyle's] style consists in a mere Germanising of English may be dismissed at once. 1889Times 14 Jan. 5/6 The Bill would tend to the Germanization of Hungary. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 720 Incidents..illustrative of the people's concealing French hearts under their Germanized exteriors. |