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vassalize, v.|ˈvæsəlaɪz|
[f. vassal n.]
1. trans. = vassal v. 1.
1599R. Linche Anc. Fiction C ij b, Since Asia was vassalized and subiugated to the Romanes. 1648Cromwell Lett. & Sp. 20 Nov., The former Quarrel was that Englishmen might rule over one another, this to vassalise us to a foreign nation. 1653E. Chisenhale Cath. Hist. 36 Their..close practises against all that will not..vassalize themselves to their impious Lord and Master. 1670in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 308 All other workemen depending on the same must lye adle [sic] and bee vassalized to their rudenes and exorbitances.
2. = vassal v. 2.
1641March Act. for Slaunder 7 He might seize all his estate..and vassalize his person at pleasure. 1654Spittlehouse Vind. Fifth-Mon. Men 5 Against all arbitrary or absolute power..vassalizing the Saints and People of God in this Commonwealth. 1848Lowell Fable for Critics 1506 To vassalize old tyrant Winter.
Hence ˈvassalized ppl. a., ˈvassalizing vbl. n.
1647Maids' Petition 3 Till then, wee'le remaine your *Vassalized Virgins. 1841T. MacQueen in Poets Ayrsh. 216 It marked the deep bondage of vassalised man.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 80 The *vassalizing of the rebellious affections. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 215 Therefore the meat is not yet fully transchanged, unless when its own Archeus being subdued, our vital one is introduced with a full vassallizing of the former. |