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ˈruffianize, v.
[f. ruffian n.]
†1. intr. To play the ruffian or pander. Obs.—0
1611Cotgr., Ruffienner, to Ruffianize, to pandarize it; make or set leacherous matches.
2. trans. To render ruffianly in character.
1833Southey in Life (1850) VI. 220 The portrait prefixed to this book seems intentionally to have radicalised, or rather ruffianised, a countenance which had no cut-throat expression at that time. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. i. i. 55 He objected to the Reform Bill of 1832, that it had ruffianised Parliament. |