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democratize, v.|dɪmɒkrətaɪz|
[a. F. démocratiser, f. démocrate, -cratie: see -ize.]
1. trans. To render democratic; to give a democratic character to.
1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVII. 583 Not to democratize any one of the great continental powers. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 398 The tendency of the measure was to democratize..the constitution. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. ii. xl. 85 The State Government, which is nothing but the colonial government developed and somewhat democratized.
2. intr. To become democratic. (rare.)
1840Tait's Mag. VII. 506 The fact that we are democratising must be evident.
Hence deˈmocratized ppl. a.; deˈmocratizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; deˈmocratizer, one who democratizes.
1859Sat. Rev. 326/2 The democratizing of the House of Commons. 1882Pall Mall G. 6 Oct. 3 A new and democratized Reform Club. 1882W. James Will to Believe (1897) 90 That element in reality..the rough, harsh, sea-wave, north-wind element, the democratizer—is banished. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. ii. xlii. 113 The democratizing constitution of 1846. 1893Nation 21 Sept. 207/3 Nothing more democratic and democratizing..has ever emanated even from the Tories in the days of their greatest distress. 1951D. Riesman in Amer. Scholar XX. 268 Freud..used original sin as a democratizer of men. |