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fraternize, v.|ˈfrætənaɪz, ˈfreɪtə-|
[ad. F. fraterniser, ad. med.L. frāterniz-āre, f. frāternus, f. frāter brother: see -ize.]
1. a. intr. To associate or sympathize with as a brother or as brothers; to form a fraternal friendship.
1611Cotgr., Fraterniser, to fraternize, concurre with, be neere vnto, agree as brothers. 1807Sir R. Wilson Jrnl. 1 July in Life (1862) II. viii 290 Had Alexander not fraternized with Buonaparte. 1816Scott Antiq. v, Too little of a democrat to fraternize with an affiliated society of the soi⁓disant Friends of the People. 1872Baker Nile Tribut. viii, We fraternised upon the spot.
b. spec. To cultivate friendly relations with (troops of an opposing army); to practise fraternization.
1897G. B. Shaw Crude Criminology in Doctors' Delusions (1932) 272 The whole army might..realize that they had no quarrel with the enemy and fraternize with them. 1915Sphere 9 Jan. 31 It has puzzled our French allies..that while we are in a war to the death with the German Empire our soldiers and theirs should have been able to fraternise on Christmas Day... Soldiers of the rival armies exchanged sweets, cigars, and cigarettes, and sang carols and songs in unison. 1928H. Williamson Pathway x. 228 The German and British staffs both issued orders, about the same time, that any man found fraternizing with the enemy, would be court-martialled. 1937Koestler Spanish Testament iii. 72 Soldiers from the rebel ranks fraternising with and discussing the situation with the Government troops. 1944New Statesman 17 June 400/1 The War Office regulation..has laid down that British soldiers must be polite to coloured [U.S.] troops, but not fraternise with them, or offer them drinks. 1946Britannica Bk. of Yr. 832/2 Fraternize, to deal socially with members of an enemy nation, especially with women; and, specifically, sexually.
2. trans. To bring into fraternal association or sympathy; to unite as brothers. Now rare.
1656–81in Blount Glossogr. 1793Burke Conduct of Minority §7 A regular correspondence for fraternizing the two nations had also been carried on. 1794Coleridge Relig. Musings vii, To know ourselves Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole! This fraternizes man. 1841Tait's Mag. VIII. 326 Emissaries were soon sent to the West Indies to fraternize the sable citizens of all the French islands. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh 2 It might have..reconciled and fraternised my soul With the new order.
Hence ˈfraternized ppl. a., ˈfraternizing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˈfraternizer, one who or that which fraternizes.
1793Trial of Fyshe Palmer 46 Had these fraternizing principles been only heard in France, we might have cared the less. 1795Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 74, I join issue with the Fraternizers, and positively deny the fact. 1817Ann. Reg. 27 All societies..which extended themselves by fraternized branches. 1837De Quincey in Tait's Mag. IV. 72 All Whigs..all, indeed, fraternisers with French republicanism. 1858Hogg Life of Shelley II. 463 The love of equality, of levelling, and fraternising. 1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. ii, The grand equalizer and fraternizer is [wine]. 1880H. James Portr. Lady v, A gentle..old man, who combined consummate shrewdness with a sort of fraternising good humour. 1937Koestler Spanish Testament ix. 179 And then ensued a perfect orgy of fraternising and eating. 1945in Amer. Speech (1947) XXII. 147/2 (heading) Fraternizing in Germany. 1957New Yorker 26 Oct. 144/2 The fantastic amount of fraternizing with the enemy in the Korean prison camps. |