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Europeanize, v.|jʊərəʊˈpiːənaɪz|
[f. European a. + -ize.]
trans. To make European in appearance, form, habit, or mode of life.
1857Sat. Rev. IV. 459/2 To suppose that India can be Europeanized through the pressure exerted by a mass of settlers. 1870J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Jordan viii. 121 This is the only piece of real carriage-way in all Syria, and its presence..at once Europeanises the scene. 1880K. Johnston Lond. Geog. 82 In Japan ‘everything is being rapidly Europeanised’.
b. To make coextensive with Europe.
1857T. E. Webb Intellect. Locke i. 8 The reaction thus originated in Germany was..Europeanized by France.
Hence Euroˈpeanized ppl. a. Euroˈpeanizing vbl. n.; also attrib.
1849Curzon Visits Monast. 72 The natty vessels which were more Europeanised and quicker than mine. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. iv. 140 The most Europeanised of the Turanian tongues. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. vi. cxiii. 626 In the Eastern cities the upper class is more Europeanized in its code of etiquette. 1887Athenæum 14 May 634/3 Ismail Pasha's Europeanizing policy. |