colonializev.
/kəˈləʊnɪəlʌɪz/, U.S. /kəˈloʊnjəˌlaɪz/, /kəˈloʊniəˌlaɪz/ΚΠ
1846 Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Austral.) 8 Apr. 271/3 Mrs. Clarke's Company successfully colonialized the exhibition.
1846 Littell's Living Age 26 Sept. 588/2 As the Cape of Good Hope was within the limits of the East India Company's charter, large quantities of coffee were sent to it from Brazil, Cuba, and other foreign countries, in order to be ‘colonialized’ (as it was called) and then imported into England.
2. transitive. To send (a person) to live in a colony (rare); to accustom (a person) to the culture and life of a colony. rare after 19th cent.
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1860 Times 3 July 9/2 He proposed to colonialize 80,000 of Her Majesty's troops, and yet he asked the house to believe that they would, under these circumstance[s], maintain the discipline and all the high qualities for which they are now distinguished.
1864 E. A. Murray Ella Norman I. 190 If you remain here, in a few years you will be colonialized.
1970 M. Spillane Survival...Zero! (Electronic ed.) (2016) ‘Dewey seems pretty capable.’ ‘Ever since he's been colonialized,’ I told her.
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a. transitive. To bring (the inhabitants of another country) under political and economic control as part of a colony; to subject (a people or nation) to colonial rule or influence.
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1925 Young Worker (U.S.) 27 June 3/4 The natives must be ‘colonialized’, that is, th[e]y must be virtually enslaved.
1972 J. Forman Making of Black Revolutionaries (2000) 514 The colonial relationships since the fifteenth century have all involved white Europeans and their American white descendants colonializing the darker people of the world.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. b3/5 The Irish have been complaining for hundreds of years about being colonialized, and now they were doing it themselves by excluding 50 percent of the population.
b. transitive. In extended use: to make (a country or people) politically or economically reliant on another country in a way reminiscent of colonization; to dominate (the economy or politics) of a country or people.
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1928 Polit. Sci. Q. 43 604 Italy has been, to a very large degree, ‘colonialized’ by huge foreign borrowings.
2003 BBC Summary of World Broadcasts (Nexis) 18 Sept. The opposition politician said that by establishing the Agricultural and Rural Development Office, the EU is colonializing the public administration of the Hungarian agriculture.
c. transitive. To settle (a place, region, etc.) with colonists as part of an effort by a state or ruler to appropriate the area settled and establish political control over it; to establish a colony or colonies in (a place, region, etc.); = colonize v. 2a.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > colonizing > colonize (a place) [verb (transitive)]
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colonialize1971
1971 E. L. Johnson Educ. in Micronesia (Masters of Educ. diss., Univ. of Hawaii) iv. 29 The Japanese colonialized the islands and developed the area into a productive land state.
1980 N.Y. Times 29 June 54/5 Grenada, from the time it was colonialized, has never been stable.
1992 Reconciliation Q. Winter 20 It was only at the beginning of the 19th century that all of Africa was colonialized.
2013 Jiji Press Eng. News Service (Tokyo) 4 July He has not said Japan did not colonialize or invade other countries.
4. transitive. Chiefly North American. To give (a building, room, etc.) features characteristic of the period of British colonial rule in America; to build, furnish, decorate, etc., in a colonial style. Now rare.Cf. colonial adj. 4b, Dutch colonial adj., English colonial adj., French colonial adj.
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1925 N.Y. Times 5 July 6/1 Green and red rooms in the mansion will be colonialized, but Empire Room only ‘touched up.’
1932 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 25 Nov. c8/2 ‘Colonialize’ your bed room now with this charming adaptation of a colonial bedchamber ensemble.
1961 Progressive Bull. (Pomona, Calif.) 11 Mar. i4/5 When Grace Coolidge merely suggested such ‘colonializing’ of the formal rooms in the middle Twenties, there was such an uproar from the Fine Arts Commission and other old Fogies that she abandoned the plan.
1993 Old-house Jrnl. May 56/1 Reversing this design process yielded bungalows that were Colonialized by Palladian windows, Adam entrances, and neoclassical colonnades.
5. transitive. To dominate (an event, place, etc.); to be the largest or most significant thing in (an event, place, etc.). rare.
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1960 Spectator 19 Feb. 244/1 A five-by-six bedroom that was veritably colonialised by one huge four-poster.
2008 C. Paul Digital Art 205 The Internet itself quickly became a mirror of the ‘real’ world, with corporations and e-commerce colonializing the landscape.
6. transitive. To subject (something) to modes of colonialist thought; (now usually) to consider or interpret (something) in a way considered typical of a white, privileged, western society without taking other backgrounds or cultures into account. Also: to appropriate (something from another culture).
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1978 R. E. Braun in tr. Euripides Rhesos Introd. p. vii Few contemporary poets possess enough Greek to undertake the complex and formidable task of transplanting a Greek play without also ‘colonializing’ it or stripping it of its deep cultural difference, its remoteness from us.
1993 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 3 Jan. b7 It is not the mission of the church to colonialize the musical tastes of a people to fit the canons of certain elites.
2013 Internat. Jrnl. of Design 7 Suppl. 21/2 Experience is a concept with a rich history and meaning... Many interpretations and foci exist. Note that we are fully aware of this and do not intend to ‘colonialize’ the term.
2020 @sinwhoha 21 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 9 Sept. 2021) Can american/western astrology please stop picking and choosing random aspects of hinduism. like stop colonializing hinduism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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