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macadamization|məˌkædəmaɪˈzeɪʃən| (Formerly with capital M.) [f. next + -ation.] The process, practice, or system of making macadamized roads; rarely concr. a macadamized road. Also, the converting of stone into road-metal.
1824Lond. Mag. X. 350 Major-Taylorization against Mac⁓adamization any day! 1824Newcastle Mag. III. 27 The only road in our neighbourhood on which something like Macadamization has been attempted. 1825Blackw. Mag. XVII. 87 A long street under the process of Macadamization. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. 2 That..turnpike-road..is now so perfect and so beautiful a specimen of Macadamization, that [etc.]. 1861Musgrave By-roads 75 Mac-adamization. 1869‘Bradwood’ O.V.H. (1870) 184 Miss Warren..was cantering down the turf border that fringed the mac⁓adamisation. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. v. (1894) 121 The glacier..crushed into smaller fragments, producing..a kind of incipient macadamisation. fig.1847Tait's Mag. XIV. 746 So very strange a macadamization of parties has taken place. |