Turkizev.
/ˈtəːkʌɪz/ 1. transitive. To render Turkish.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Turkey > [verb (transitive)]
Turkize1599
Turkify1682
Ottomanize1886
Turkicize1939
1599 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1896) I. 220 All three words of one significacion, viz. turkized atheism.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. vi. Pref. 1464 A halfe-turkised Christian with divers Turkes following immediatly after.
1911 Q. Rev. Apr. 471 The ‘Turcising’ of the Ottoman Empire which is one of the objects of the Young Turk party.
2. intransitive. To play the Turk; †to tyrannize over.
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society > authority > rule or government > oppression > oppress [verb (transitive)] > tyrannize over
tyrannize1583
Turkize1599
sultanize1804
Napoleonize1822
Neronize1889
1599 in T. G. Law Archpriest Controv. (1896) I. 97 Blackwell, yt will turkise over vs to vrge our consent by violent force.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 169 The Iesuits..would Turkize ouer vs in that shamelesse manner.
1612 T. James Iesuits Downefall 2 They vse to turkize over men in a shameful maner, nay, it were better to liue vnder the Turke.
1862 Cunningham Hist. Theol. (1864) I. xx. 629 A book..called ‘Calvinus Turcisans’ or Calvin Turkising,—that is teaching the doctrine of the Turks or Mohometans.
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