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pleˈbeianize, v.
[f. plebeian + -ize.]
trans. To make plebeian, reduce to plebeian rank; to make common, popular, or vulgar.
1844Blackw. Mag. LV. 45 The new art, which, by plebeianizing knowledge and enlightening the mass, deprived the law and the prophets of half their terrors. 1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 256/1 She dropped the de, and thus plebeianised her name. 1882Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 343 It [an inn] took to billiards, and became gradually plebeianised. |