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imperialize, v.|ɪmˈpɪərɪəlaɪz|
Also 7 em-.
[f. imperial a. + -ize.]
†1. intr. To act imperially, act the part of an emperor or absolute ruler. Obs.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 157 They delight in tyranny and account Emperializing a qualitie proper for great Personages.
†2. trans. To render imperial; to attach to the party of the Emperor (e.g. against the Papacy).
1639Fuller Holy War iii. xxiv. (1647) 160 The Romanists cast away the witnesse of all Imperialized authours then living.
3. To render imperial; to cause to be, or belong to, an empire, or an imperial policy.
1805Times in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1806) IX. 53 Whether..their favourite luxury would be imperialized by the coronation to double their usual price. 1849Fraser's Mag. XXXIX. 362 Those trading classes who would respect almost any constituted authority, or imperialised gensdarme who would keep the peace. 1878Scribner's Mag. XV. 113/1 Napoleon's scheme for imperializing Mexico. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 210 The expression of the cold, sharp, eagle features, imperialized in his countrymen [the Romans] by sway of the world through so many generations. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. 444 It was all part of an imperialising policy.
Hence imperialiˈzation, the action of imperializing.
1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 405 The Government have blundered fatally in their struggles after ‘imperialization’. |