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reˈpublicanize, v.
[ad. F. républicaniser (Littré): see republican and -ize.]
1. trans. To render republican in principles or character; to convert into a republican form.
1797W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXIII. 559 The first public measure which tended avowedly to republicanise France. 1813Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) X. 516 They have a Board of Officers now sitting to consider of a military constitution for the army, which it is intended to republicanize. 1849Mill Ess. (1859) II. 362 Their great task was to republicanize the public mind. 1871Standard 5 Jan., Agents commissioned—according to the expression of the day—to republicanise the country.
b. transf. To treat, alter, or re-cast, on republican principles.
1797Southey Let. to J. May 26 June, The French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanised their language. 1858–9Marsh Eng. Lang. xxx. (1860) 676 Let us not, with malice prepense, go about to republicanize our orthography and our syntax.
2. intr. To show republican tendencies.
1834New Monthly Mag. XLII. 42 Even the peerage of France was beginning to republicanize.
Hence reˈpublicanized ppl. a.; reˈpublicanizer; reˈpublicanizing vbl. n.
1812Shelley in Dowden Life (1887) I. 337 It develops the..actual state of republicanized Ireland. 1840Thackeray Catherine i, After a deal of republicanising,..Stuartising, and Orangising. c1871Sherman in Critic 29 Sept. (1894) 198/1 We will welcome you back as the ‘republicanizer’ of the worst anarchy on the globe. |