republicanizev.
/rᵻˈpʌblᵻkənʌɪz/, /rᵻˈpʌblᵻkn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /rəˈpəbləkəˌnaɪz/, /riˈpəbləkəˌnaɪz/ 1. transitive. To make republican in principles or character; to convert into a republican form; to alter or reorganize on republican principles.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > make democratic [verb (transitive)] > make republican
republicanize1794
1794 tr. in Proc. National Convent. Paris 31 The idea of a Supreme Being..is a despotic idea... Mankind can never be liberated, or republicanised, so long as they shall preserve such a notion.
1797 R. Southey Let. 26 June in Lett. to J. May (1976) i. 25 The French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanised their language.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 516 They have a Board of Officers now sitting to consider of a military constitution for the army, which it is intended to republicanize.
1849 J. S. Mill Ess. (1859) II. 362 Their great task was to republicanize the public mind.
1871 Standard 5 Jan. Agents commissioned—according to the expression of the day—to republicanise the country.
1901 Times 30 July 5/4 The more State teaching is Republicanized, the more will Reactionaries..feel it necessary to send their children to schools animated by their own beliefs.
1942 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 14 450 He devoted himself to the task of republicanizing the institutions of France, particularly the church and the army.
1997 A. Barnett This Time v. 117 The throne has to a large extent been republicanised... Its royal sanctity has been eroded.
2. intransitive. To show republican tendencies; to become republican in character or form.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [verb (intransitive)] > show republican tendencies
republicanize1834
1834 New Monthly Mag. Sept. 42 Even the peerage of France was beginning to republicanize.
1851 Monthly Literary Misc. 5 291/1 Sunny France, ever republicanizing and never able to attain to a republic.
1910 W. S. Sichel Mem. Emma, Lady Hamilton ix 260 Their muse..was the fair Eleonora Fonseca di Pimentel, who had been allowed to republicanise unmolested.
1984 J. R. Foster tr. J.-M. Mayeur & M. Rebérioux Third Republic Origins to Great War viii. 232 How was it possible to republicanize without democratizing as well?
Derivatives
reˈpublicanizer n.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [noun] > republican system > making republican > one who
republicanizerc1871
c1871 Sherman in Critic (1894) 29 Sept. 198/1 We will welcome you back as the ‘republicanizer’ of the worst anarchy on the globe.
1989 Jrnl. Early Republic 9 460 On the other hand, ‘republicanizers’ often..de-emphasize the citizenry's frequent resort to government in defense of liberty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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