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▪ I. Italianate, a. (n.)|ɪˈtælɪənət|
Forms: see next; also 7 -at.
[ad. It. Italianato: see -ate2.]
1. Rendered Italian; that has become or been made Italian in character: see Italianate v.
Often with allusion to the Italian proverb Inglese Italianato è un diavolo incarnato, ‘Englishman Italianate is a devil incarnate’ (see quots. 1591, 1659, and quots. 1598, 1660 in italianated 1).
1572Grindal Let. Burleigh Wks. (Parker Soc.) 332 The number of obdurate papists and Italianate atheists is great at this time. 1591Greene Disc. Coosnage (N.), I am Englishe borne, and I have English thoughts; not a devill incarnate because I am Italianate. 1659Howell Lex. Tetragl. Ital. Prov., An Englishman Italionat is a Devill Incarnat. 1880Sat. Rev. 30 Oct. 552/2 An English girl that is Italianate must expect..to live among ideas and manners so strange to her that her existence can scarcely be made harmonious.
2. Of Italian character, form, or aspect.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (Shaks. Soc.) 68, I comprehend..vnder hypocrisie, al Machivalisme, Puritanisme..and finally, all Italionate conveyances. 1631R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 324 A scru'd face, an artful cringe, or an Italionate ducke. 1894Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. 98 The small Italianate physique of his son.
†B. n. An Italianate person. Obs. rare.
1587Harrison England ii. v. (1877) i. 130, I passe ouer to saie anie more of these Italionates.
▪ II. Italianate, v.|ɪˈtælɪəneɪt|
Also 6 ytal-, 6–7 italion-, -in-, -ien-, (7 -iannate).
[Found first in pa. pple. Italianated (see next), f. It. Italianato, whence the simple vb. was deduced.]
trans. To render Italian; to give an Italian character to; to Italianize.
Usually in a depreciatory sense, esp. with reference to the imitation of Italian fashions and morals by English courtiers in the 16th and 17th cents.; cf. Italianate ppl. a. 1.
1567Fenton Trag. Disc. 213 Ytalianated in legerdemaines of subteltye. 1599H. Holland Wks. Greenham To Rdr., The world was neuer more full of Italian conceits, nor men more in danger..to be Italianated. 1615Val. Welshm. (1663) C j b, My brain Italinates my barren faculties To Machivilian blackness. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. viii. iii. §49 The longer He lived in England, the less He had of an English-man, daily more and more Italianating Himself. 1704S. Briscoe Key Rehearsal Pref. 9 The Decorum of Foreign-Theatres, especially the French..before it was so far Italianated. 1899E. W. Gosse Donne i. 36 Soft and voluptuous measures Italianating the rude tongues of the preceding generation.
Hence Iˈtalianating ppl. a.
1879E. W. Gosse Lit. N. Europe 242 This Italianating spirit was not lessened..by the next step taken. |