单词 | radicalize |
释义 | radicalizev. 1. transitive. To make radical, esp. politically; to imbue with radical principles. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] > make radical in politics radicalize1820 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [verb (transitive)] > make radical radicalize1820 1820 G. Buxton Polit. Quixote x. 55 Our travellers..made several attempts to radicalize some of the poorest mechanics and labourers of Preston, but without effect. 1835 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 9 Sept. (1875) III. xxix. 313 That the new councils will be Radical, and that their influence will radicalise the boroughs. 1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. xvii. 305 Shakespeare's Cade tells you what he thought of Radicalizing the people. 1938 Times 5 July 19/1 A Left Front that has in the course of fighting radicalized its ideology from Democracy to Communism. 1979 Dædalus Summer 19 It disrupts the delicate balance of pluralistic societies and radicalizes everyone. 2000 G. Santoro Myself when I am Real (2001) xii. 288 Some were radicalized by the war they'd seen up close, its covered-up massacres and incompetence and thievery, its stalemate. 2. intransitive. To become radical, esp. in political outlook; to uphold or espouse radical principles. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [verb (intransitive)] > be or become radical radicalize1823 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 295 Many an honest squire..rapidly radicalizing against Mr. Canning. 1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. viii. 184 When it [sc. the Reform Bill] and the Catholic question were both carried..Herbert Grimstone radicalized. 1869 Catholic World Nov. 204/2 The true radicals, who radicalize in satin slippers and kid gloves, seek not to ameliorate the bubbleosity which is unreal. 1970 W. T. Divale & J. Joseph I Lived inside Campus Revol. xii. 213 By 1967-68 it [sc. the DuBois Clubs of America] began to radicalize. 2001 Jrnl. Law & Society 28 203 He calls on radicals to liberalize and liberals to radicalize in a common enterprise of ‘radical liberalism’. Derivatives ˈradicalized adj. ΚΠ 1837 Times 28 Aug. 3/3 This, however, is not the first time the Radicalized Whigs have taken the same unwarrantable freedom with the Royal name. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. xii. 233 A confounded Radicalized country..lets us be kicked! 1913 S. P. Orth Socialism & Democracy in Europe ix. 230 The radicalized party of Dicey, is the Liberal Party of to-day. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 24 Apr. 17/1 After all, isn't economic freedom one very important kind of human freedom? Obviously it is, and yet many college students, most particularly the radicalized students of the late 1960s, have been unable to make the connection. 1996 Tribune 21 June 2/1 New Labour seems so preoccupied with ladling out reassurance to an increasingly radicalised middle class. ˈradicalizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > left > radical > making or becoming radical radicalizing1885 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. v. 92 Such is the condition of a rapidly Radicalizing country! 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 July 2 A remarkable instance, this, of the Radicalising of the Liberal party. 1905 Daily Chron. 1 May 4/5 The united French Socialist party from now henceforward..will draw to itself..all the radicalising elements in the country. 1987 R. Berthoud Life Henry Moore viii. 143 Hitler's accession to power..had first set in motion the internationalizing and radicalizing of London's cultural life. 2000 F. Keane Stranger's Eye 15 I had had the radicalizing experience of being educated by a religious brother with a fierce belief in social justice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1820 |
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