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diplomatize, v.|dɪˈpləʊmətaɪz|
[In I. f. Gr. διπλωµατ- diploma + -ize; in II. a new formation from diplomat, -ic, -ist.]
I.
1. trans. To invest with a diploma. Hence diˈplomatized ppl. a., diplomaed. rare.
1670Lex Talionis 21 As able Physitians as any that Practise, and better than many dyplomatized Doctors. 1834Knickerbocker Aug. 120 Ladies were invited..to prepare themselves for future honors..by becoming Latinized, Græcised, mathematicized, and at length diplomatized.
II.
2. intr. To act or serve as a diplomat or diplomatist; to practise diplomacy; to use diplomatic arts; to act with address or astuteness.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iii. i, He diplomatised, in order to gain time. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1848) II. ii. vi. 119 Brave Bouillé mysteriously diplomatising in scheme within scheme. 1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 285/1 He was too impatient to diplomatise. 1875Contemp. Rev. XXV. 798 One who had been campaigning and diplomatizing almost from his childhood.
3. a. trans. To treat in the manner of a diplomatist, to act diplomatically towards.
1855Fraser's Mag. LI. 239 His only chance..was to cajole—we mean to diplomatize—his neighbours. 1898Daily News 6 Aug. 7/3 Italian unity is owing in great part to the work of the people with Garibaldi, and Cavour did nothing but diplomatize the movement. 1906Daily Chron. 24 Dec. 4/6 Count Nicholas Ignatieff who may be said to have ‘diplomatised’ the Russo-Turkish War of 1877.
b. To do out of by diplomacy or address.
1885Lowe Bismarck I. viii. 479 Louis Napoleon had not long been diplomatised out of Luxemburg.
Hence diˈplomatizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1855Carlyle Prinzenraub 106 No more, either of fighting or diplomatizing, needed for him. 1882Pall Mall G. 5 July 2/1 The two Powers were thinking of their own diplomatizings. |