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† ˈcantonize, v. Obs.
[f. canton n.1 + -ize.]
1. trans. To divide into portions or parts; ‘to parcel out into small divisions’ (J.); to form into cantons.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. (1641) 217/1 To Cantonize the State. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1787) 103 And thus was all Ireland cantonized among ten persons of the English nation. 1701Argument for War 20 An unwarrantable reason for cantonizing the Spanish Territories. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. ii. 57 Those kindred countries were each cantonized into many tribes.
b. to cantonize out: to separate.
a1670Hacket Cent Serm. (1675) 818 God cantonized out for himself but Twelve Families or Tribes out of all the Kingdoms of the Earth.
2. intr. To separate (oneself) into, or form, an independent community. Also to cantonize it. Obs.
1605Raleigh Introd. Hist. Eng. (1693) 6 Whether any parties did cantonize or were free Estates, or Commonwealths. 1611[see canton v. 3]. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. ii. §2 (1737) I. 113 To cantonize is natural; when the Society grows vast and bulky. 1809Edin. Rev. XIII. 458.
3. trans. To canton (troops); to locate.
1626T. H[awkins] tr. Caussin's Holy Crt. 127 The Diuells and Furyes were cantonnized. c1674Scotland's Griev. under Lauderdale 36 Neither is he content to have thus cantonized those [ministers] that were licensed.
Hence cantonized ppl. a., cantonizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1611[see cantoned 1]. 1651Davenant Gondibert (1673) Pref. 4 Their cantonizing in Tribes. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. ii. §2 (1737) I. 113 Sedition is a kind of cantonizing already begun within the State. |