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▪ I. † ˈpolicize, v.1 Obs. [f. policy n.1 + -ize.] intr. To use policy; to scheme, manœuvre. Hence † policizing vbl. n. and ppl. a., scheming; † ˈpolicizer, one who practises policy, a schemer.
1809M. Edgeworth Tales Fash. Life III. Manœuvring 4 note, (Irish labourer) ‘I'd call her a policīzer—I would say she was fond of policīzing’. Ibid. 85 For a week it might be practicable to keep them asunder by policising, but this could never be effected if he were to settle..in the country. 1820C. Colton Lacon ii. (1833) 16 As a policiser, the marquis reasoned badly. 1825New Monthly Mag. XIV. 85 The indignities which spring up in the crooked paths of policizing favouritism. ▪ II. ˈpolicize, v.2 rare. [f. police + -ize.] trans. To organize, administer, discipline, reduce to law and order. Hence ˈpolicized ppl. a.
1840Tait's Mag. VII. 392 The woman, as lady Morgan would say, of a more ‘policized society’. |