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colonize, v.|ˈkɒlənaɪz|
Also -ise.
[f. stem of L. colōn-us, colōn-ia and Eng. colony + -ize; cf. mod.F. coloniser.]
1. trans. To settle (a country) with colonists; to plant or establish a colony in.
1622Bacon Advt. Holy War (J.), The farther occupation and colonizing of those countries. c1645Howell Lett. iii. ix, They that would thus colonize the stars with Inhabitants. 1780Coxe Russ. Disc. 4 The Southern district was conquered and colonised. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi ii. (1870) 49 The descendant of Kadmos, who had colonised Thebes from Phoenicia.
absol.1807Southey Espriella's Lett. (1814) I. 252 It is a part of the English system to colonize with criminals. 1868J. E. T. Rogers Pol. Econ. xix. (1876) 259 Though the government does not colonise, it watches over emigration.
2. To establish in a colony.
1816Shelley Let. to Peacock 28 July, These [seeds] I mean to colonize in my garden. 1840L. Blanchard in New Monthly Mag. LX. 411 The thousands of inthralled and helpless residents colonized north of Hyde-park.
3. intr. To form or establish a colony or settlement; to settle. Also transf. of animals and plants; cf. colonist 2.
1817Byron in Moore Life 358, I write..from the banks of the Brenta..where I have colonised for six months to come. 1829Southey in Q. Rev. XLI. 416 To colonize in Africa..was the first wish of his heart. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. ii. ix. (ed. 2) 206 The former bird has tried two or three times to colonize.
4. To place or register (political supporters) in a district where their votes may decide a closely contested election; to fill (a district) with such voters. Also absol. and transf. U.S. politics.
1842Congress. Globe 31 May, App. 471/1 So far as he was informed, the practice of colonizing had its origin, as connected with the elections of the people in our country, in the city of New York. 1885Century Mag. Feb. 636 Arrangements are made for colonizing voters from the neighboring States. 1903N.Y. Tribune 13 Sept., The attempt to colonize in the Third Ward by a faction of the Democratic party was frustrated to-day. 1948New Yorker 25 Sept. 26/1 Floaters are retainers of political organizations, and it's still common practice to ‘colonize’ doubtful districts with them. 1949in Amer. Speech (1955) XXX. 284 Communist plans to ‘colonize’ key U.S. industrial plant[s].
Hence colonized ppl. a., colonizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1622[see 1]. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 431 Our collonizd plantators there. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 169 The colonizing of the Indies, and the wars of Flanders, have much drained this country of people. 1805Southey in Ann. Rev. III. 70 An adventurous and colonizing people. 1859De Quincey Ceylon Wks. XII. 3 This colonising genius of the British people. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life xxiii. 479 The aggressive and colonising power of the Scandinavian flora. |