aristocratizev.
1. transitive. To make or render aristocratic.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > ennoble [verb (transitive)] > make aristocratic
genteelize1685
aristocratize1799
1799 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 297 His opinions are sensibly aristocratized.
2. intransitive. To lean towards or favour aristocracy.
Derivatives
aristocratizing adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [adjective] > of the upper classes > tending towards
aristocratizing1841
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 151 A petty aristocratizing princedom like Weimar.
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