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Americanize, v.|əˈmɛrɪkəˌnaɪz|
[f. American a. + -ize.]
1. strictly, To make American; to naturalize as an American, esp. as a citizen of the United States.
1816Pickering Voc., Americanize, to render American. 1859in Worcester.
2. loosely, To make American in character; to assimilate to the customs or institutions of the United States. (Chiefly a term of English party politics, intended to be opprobrious.)
1797J. Jay Corr. & Public Papers 27 Oct. (1893) IV. 232, I wish to see our people more Americanized, if I may use that expression; until we feel and act as an independent nation. 1803W. O. Pughe Cambrian Biogr. 140 Him they found perfectly Americanized: before any answer was sent he must first know who would pay him for his trouble. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 595 His wish is to see Greece ‘not Anglicized, but Americanized’. 1830Gentl. Mag. Mar. 238 They take upon themselves to scout learning..Americanize episcopacy and the liturgy. 1858Bright Sp. 27 Oct. 289 They say we must not on any account ‘Americanize’ our institutions. 1898Library Jrnl. June 229/2 The library should be wholly American, and its influence tend wholly toward Americanizing the foreign-born.
3. intr. To become American in character, etc.
1854T. Cholmondeley U. Thule xix. 324, I am convinced that society in such a colony as New Zealand must daily Americanise. 1875Howells Foregone Concl. 77 He was Americanizing in that good lady's hands as fast as she could transform him. 1882― in Longm. Mag. I. 42 They have Americanised in such degree that it is hard to know some of them from ourselves.
4. intr. To use Americanisms in language.
1839Q. Rev. Oct. 311 The second example will satisfy Mr. Murray that Hood Americanizes not. |