partisanizedadj.
/ˌpɑːtᵻˈzanʌɪzd/, /ˈpɑːtᵻz(ə)nʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈpɑrdəz(ə)nˌaɪzd/ Made partisan; biased.
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1876 Springfield (Mass.) Daily Republican 5 Aug. 4/1 The vigorous sentences in which Mr. Tilden discusses the abuses of our partisanized civil service..are full of the intelligence..of reform.
1896 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 28 Sept. Loyal Prohibitionists are neither partisanized old men, nor spoiled children.
1928 Pacific Affairs 1 13 A resolution was unanimously passed to drop the term ‘Partisanized (tanghua) Education’ and adopt in its place ‘Education on the Basis of the Three Principles’.
1982 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 42 264 This resulted in giving the History Office, and all later generations, a highly ‘partisanized’ picture of the late Ming.
2013 M. Riquelme in P. Lambert & A. Nickson Paraguay Reader v. 240 Implementation of decisions of the head of State rested on the strength of non-institutional, partisanized armed forces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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