Whiggizev.
/ˈwɪɡʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈ(h)wɪˌɡaɪz/ Now historical and rare.† 1. intransitive. To behave in a manner characteristic of a Whig; to espouse or support the principles, policies, etc., of the Whig Party. Obsolete.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [verb (intransitive)] > act like a Whig
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1819 J. Mill Let. 7 Sept. in D. Ricardo Wks. & Corr. (1952) VIII. 58 Whiggery is whiggizing most characteristically on the present occasion.
1833 Standard 18 Dec. Now, one word to another respected contemporary, which, much to our surprise, we find Whiggizing in this matter.
1836 London Dispatch 25 Dec. 116/3 They had refused to Whiggize.
2. transitive. To imbue (someone or something) with the principles or outlook of the Whigs or Whig Party; to make Whiggish. Cf. earlier Whiggized adj., Whiggify v.
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1837 London Dispatch 5 Feb. 167/4 Was Mr. Hume's speech Radical, and was it Whiggised by the Chronicle?
1839 Morning Chron. 5 July A faction desire to entirely Whiggize the city.
1849 Boston Daily Atlas 21 July 2/1 Their great fault is their being Whigs. I fairly believe they will Whigize the territory, and that you will find the giant west topped off in full bloom with tariff and internal improvement doctrines.
1998 R. Paulson Don Quixote in Eng. 30 All of those uncivil aspects of society such as enthusiasm and satire are civilized, for which read Whigized.
Derivatives
ˈWhiggizing adj. and n.
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1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 708 I don't like a Whig..but..I have even less affection for a Whiggizing Tory.
1833 Carlisle Jrnl. 2 Nov. A Whiggizing-Tory Administration.
1995 R. Mellor Tacitus: Classical Heritage p. xliv Alexander Pope mocked the Whigizing of Tacitus in a couplet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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