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1758 H. Walpole Let. 11 June in Corr. (1960) XXI. 211 But while I am politicizing, I forget to tell you half the purport of my letter.

1776 G. G. Stählberg Hist. Late Revol. Sweden 91 Those who, in their sermons, inveighed against public crimes, were said to politicise.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 310 Burns..could have governed, debated in National Assemblies; politicised, as few could.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Dec. 2/2 We talk and squabble and politicize about education as a vote-catching agency.

1933 Syracuse (New York) Herald 18 June i. 12/2 We don't commercialize, but we do politicize and don't care who knows it.

1991 R. Jenkins Life at Centre vii. 138 Between holidays I also wrote as well as politicised in those early 1960s years.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xi. 285 The tendency of the enlightened men of Athens, from the days of Solôn downwards, to refine and politicise the character of Thêseus.

1948 Times 21 Dec. 4/5 M. Ramadier is accused by the Gaullists..of trying to ‘politicize’ the army.

1962 S. E. Finer Man on Horseback xii. 236 Such parties..seek to dominate and politicize all politically important voluntary bodies outside their ranks.

1970 Guardian 5 June 11/7 The skinheads who Mr Powell has managed to politicise.

1991 T. H. Goldsmith Biol. Roots Human Nature i. 5 Sociobiology was politicized at the outset by those who saw in it an elaborate argument for justifying a competitive, capitalist status quo.