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liberalize, v.|ˈlɪbərəlaɪz|
[f. liberal + -ize. Cf. F. libéraliser.]
1. a. trans. To render liberal; to imbue with liberal ideas or principles; to make liberal-minded; to free from narrowness; to enlarge the intellectual range of. Also (nonce-use) to liberalize away, to do away with by such means.
1774Burke Amer. Taxation Sel. Wks. I. 123 He was bred to the law..; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt..to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion. 1790― Fr. Rev. 148 We liberalize the church by an intercourse with the leading characters of the country. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 341 If they do not break the proper bound, and liberalize away all true religion. 1830De Quincey R. Bentley Wks. 1857 VII. 103 Classical education..liberalizes the mind. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 521 The readiness with which he enlarged his needs and liberalized his habits to the standard he found here. 1898J. E. C. Bodley France II. iv. i. 325 The Empire, for which, when liberalised, he predicted a glorious and popular career.
b. To make Liberal in politics.
1853Lewis Lett. 262 He is Liberalizing them, instead of their Torifying him. 1884Manch. Exam. 2 Dec. 5/1 The small boroughs will go to liberalise the counties. 1887Spectator 30 July 1014/2 The Conservative Party has been liberalised..by the Household Suffrage Act.
c. To incline to liberality. nonce-use.
1890‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 310 Liberalise the ideas of Messrs. Oldstile and Crampton.
d. To remove restrictions on (the import of goods, outflow of capital, etc.).
1940Economist 5 Oct. 431/2 All the joint-stock banks decided..to liberalise their policy of agricultural loans. 1955[see liberalized ppl. a.].
2. intr. To favour liberal opinions; be or become liberal in one's ideas or principles.
1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 248 In the Memoirs of James the Second..the catholic reasons and liberalises like a modern philosopher. a1836Froude Mem. (1849) 152 We were all liberalizing as we were going on, making too much of this world, and losing our hold upon the next. [1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. viii. 184 Demosthenes said of the Pythian oracle, that it philipized; and from the moment the Reform Bill began to thrive, Herbert Grimstone liberalized.] 1848Tait's Mag. XV. 828 Russia must liberalize, or be convulsed.
Hence ˈliberalized, ˈliberalizing ppl. adjs. Also ˈliberalizer, one who or something which liberalizes.
1820Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignor. 158 Liberalized feeling and deportment. 1824Ann. Reg. 40 The Irish clergy,..an educated, liberalized, well-conducted order of men. 1833J. H. Newman Lett. (1871) I. 490 The liberalisers in and out of Parliament. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxviii. VIII. 634 Intolerance is the natural weed of the human bosom, though its growth or development may be counteracted by liberalizing causes. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Culture Wks. (Bohn) II. 368 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod..are all educators, liberalizers. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. v. 259 The course was not truly, what it claimed to be, liberalising. 1884Chr. Commw. 24 Jan. 347/2 Notions that it [Sunday] is but a relaxed or liberalised Jewish Sabbath. 1955Times 6 Aug. 6/3 The French Government has agreed to the German request that the ‘liberalized’ sector of French trade with the O.E.E.C. countries shall be restored. |