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单词 britannicize
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britannicizev.

Brit. /brᵻˈtanəsʌɪz/, U.S. /brɪˈtænəˌsaɪz/
Forms: 1800s brittannicize, 1900s– britannicize. Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Britannic adj., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < Britannic adj. + -ize suffix.Compare earlier Britannize:1811 Ann. Reg. 1809 (Otridge ed.) Pref. p. iv Such measures as may Britannize, as it were, all the other Grecian islands.
transitive. To make British in form or character.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > [verb (transitive)]
britannicize1887
1887 W. F. Rae Miss Bayle's Romance xvii American gentlemen are ‘brittannicized Indians’.
1921 Spectator 16 Apr. 487/2 St. Paul did not fight a lifelong battle against judaizing the Christian Church in order that we should britannicize it nowadays.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Apr. 44/1 A black pickpocket who silently corners the Polish-born ‘Britannicized’ journalist and exposes an elaborately described ‘large tan-and-purple uncircumcised thing’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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