Europeanizev.

1821 Classical Jrnl. 23 284 Oasis, from Wah; the Latins first Europeanised this word by substituting the o for the w, and adding a double s.

1857 Sat. Rev. 4 459/2 To suppose that India can be Europeanized through the pressure exerted by a mass of settlers.

1870 J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Jordan viii. 121 This is the only piece of real carriage-way in all Syria, and its presence..at once Europeanises the scene.

1927 W. Cather Death comes for Archbishop vi. i. 176 She..had done much to Europeanize her husband.

1957 M. Beloff Europe & Europeans i. 29 Other branches of Turkish law had already been Europeanized.

1996 Time Out 31 July 18/3 Chi-Chi is nervous of Europeanising what she sees as Africa's own, already threatened, culture.

1857 T. E. Webb Intellectualism of Locke i. 8 The reaction thus originated in Germany was..Europeanized by France.

1989 Campaign (Nexis) 12 May All organisers are looking at ways of Europeanising their business.

1994 K. Perry Business & European Community iv. 76 If competition increased in securities, then the same was abundantly the case for other financial services, as banks, building societies and insurance companies europeanized their activities.

1893 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 649 The features were tending slowly on the average to Europeanise.

1951 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 35 97 Unamuno chastised them for being too introspective, and requested that they Europeanize or suffer the inevitable consequences.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media (1967) II. xvii. 179 America is Europeanizing on as extensive a pattern as Europe is Americanizing.

1988 Truck Dec. 49/3 [He] said that Italian truck drivers needed to: ‘Europeanise’.

2006 Sunday Business (Nexis) 9 July Through acquisitions and organic growth, European companies have been globalising and Europeanising.