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Mediteˈrraneanize, v. [f. Mediterranean a. + -ize.] trans. To make Mediterranean in character or attributes. So Mediterˌraneaniˈzation.
[1896T. Common tr. Nietzsche's Case of Wagner iii. 9 Il faut méditerraniser la musique: I have reasons for using this formula. The return to nature, to health, to gaiety, to youth, and to virtue!] 1915Nation (N.Y.) 6 May 485/3 The Greeks are Mediterraneanized Slavs whose only heritage is a language which Demosthenes could neither have pronounced nor understood. 192119th Cent. May 894 The ancient Alpine race has been mediterraneanised, latinised, slavonised, and teutonised in Europe, and the Teuton in his turn has undergone mediterraneanisation, latinisation and slavonisation. 1947N. Cardus Autobiogr. iii. 244 He mediterraneanises Wagner, to use Nietzsche's term. |