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Indianize, v.|ˈɪndɪənaɪz|
[-ize.]
†1. intr. To act like an Indian; to play the Indian. Obs.
1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vi. v. (1852) 400 We have shamefully Indianized in all those abominable things.
2. trans. To make Indian in character, habits, or appearance. Chiefly in pa. pple. So ˈIndianized ppl. a.
1702C. Mather Magnalia Christi Americana vii. 68/2 On March 18. the French with Indians, being half one, half t'other, half Indianized French, and half Frenchified Indians..fell suddenly upon Salmon Falls. 1782‘J. H. St. John de Crèvecœur’ Lett. from Amer. Farmer xii. 293 Many an anxious parent..went to the Indian villages where..their children had been carried in captivity... They found them so perfectly Indianised, that many knew them no longer. 1829Bengalee 408 Turning from my Indianised friend. 1837Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 117 From having been completely heated through in the summer, I am now pretty well Indianized. 1879in S. Sewall's Diary II. 375 note, Competent authorities tell us that..on this continent, more than one hundred of the whites have been ‘Indianized’ to each single Indian who has been civilized. 1882Standard No. 17,972. 5 The polite mapmakers have done their best to Indianise the worst of them [place-names given by settlers]. 1924E. M. Forster Passage to India xxiv. 225 The invocation of Mrs. Moore continued... The syllables..became Indianized into Esmiss Esmoor. 1935Times 19 June 7/4 If they really meant to Indianize the Army, did they mean to do it because they thought the Indian Army would be more efficient when it had got rid of British officers, or because they thought it would please the Indian sepoy? 1936Discovery Nov. 337/1 The capital of a great Indianised empire extending over the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Java and Sumatra from the 8th to the 12th century a.d. 1963Times 2 May 15/2 The house party, so to speak, includes an English doctor, an Austrian musician who has become Indianized, and an American sociologist and his wife. 1969Eve's Weekly (Bombay) 20 Dec. 51/4 Their Indianised service is generally well-attended, and very little opposition has been met with. |