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Prussianize, v.|ˈprʌʃənaɪz|
[f. Prussian a. + -ize.]
trans. To render Prussian or like Prussian in organization or character. Also intr., to act in a manner regarded as typical of Prussians. Hence ˈPrussianized ppl. a., ˈPrussianizing vbl. n.; also Prussianiˈzation, the action or process of Prussianizing; ˈPrussianizer, one who Prussianizes.
1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 167 To Prussianise his people or to Americanise it. 1872Spectator 7 Sept. 1132 The attempted Prussianisation of the separated provinces of France. 1885Pall Mall G. 7 Nov. 10/1 The very embodiment of didactic bureaucracy and Prussianized pedagogy. 1891Athenæum 22 Aug. 250/2 The recent efforts of Japan to prussianize her institutions. 1893Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) III. 365 The ‘Prussianizing’ of Germany. 1905Westm. Gaz. 28 Oct. 2/1 The Prussianisers have received a set-back by the decision of the Supreme Court in the Lippe-Detmold Regency case in favour of Count Ernest of Lippe Bielefeld. 1909Q. Rev. CCX. 664 A similar policy pursued in a neighbouring territory—the attempted prussianisation of the inhabitants of Prussian Poland. Ibid., Since his [sc. Bismarck's] time there has been a steady attempt to prussianise them. Ibid., So far, the prussianising policy had wholly failed. 1915[see Prussianism]. 1927‘Ixion’ Further Motor Cycle Reminisc. 82 The victim [of the practical joke] occupied a minor official position, by dint of which he Prussianized rather too freely. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 45/2 The Poles in Prussia's eastern provinces were not only devout Catholics but also Polish patriots who..offered stubborn resistance to Bismarck's Prussianization policy. 1976Listener 19 Feb. 202/1 After 60 years, some Hanoverians, especially the military, had become Prussianised. |