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Normanize, v.|ˈnɔːmənaɪz|
[f. Norman n.1]
1. intr. To adopt the Norman tongue or manners.
1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. To Rdr. p. xiii, Hee would neuer haue borrowed so many words from abroad,..except it were to please the Prince and Nobles, then all Normanizing. 1877Tennyson Harold iii. ii, This lightning before death Plays on the word,—and Normanizes too!
2. trans. To make Norman or like the Normans.
a1861Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. V. 3 He never strove to Normanize the English people. 1875Lower Eng. Surnames (ed. 4) I. p. xxvii, The author's fault..lies in Normanizing whatever he can.
Hence ˈNormanized ppl. a.; ˈNormanizer; ˈNormanizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1848Lytton Harold i. v, The Norman knights and youths profusely scattered amongst the Normanised Saxons. 1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 271 Others..were Normanized Englishmen. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1875) II. vii. 82 If they were not Normanizers, they were at least Romanizers. 1878Encycl. Brit. VIII. 289/2 Had the Normanizing schemes of the Confessor been carried out. 1885Dict. Nat. Biogr. I. 260/1 A step in the direction of normanising and feudalising the civil government. |