单词 | endenizen |
释义 | endenizenv. 1. transitive. To make a denizen or citizen of; to naturalize, enfranchise. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [verb (transitive)] > admit to citizen's rights > naturalize naturalize1559 endenizen1592 endenize1598 citizenize1798 nationalize1809 1592 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 6 Oh that the worthy Du Bartas were so endenisoned. a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. in Wks. (1640) III Words indenizened, i.e. derived from the Greek, and commonly used as English: as azure, zeal, zephyre, etc. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 16 Liberty to endenizon new Citizens in the Commonwealth of Languages. 1708 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 292 I shall get them either naturalized or endenizened by the Queen. 1828 C. Lamb Detached Thoughts on Bks. in Elia 2nd Ser. 182 The books..have not endenizened themselves..in the national heart. 1830 W. Godwin Cloudesley III. ii. 33 I would have endenisened myself in a country where I could make myself respected. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > right of specific class or person [verb (intransitive)] > gain citizenship endenizen1598 nationalize1891 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Inurbare, to endenizen, to become..a citizen or a ciuill man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.1592 |
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