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occiˈdentalize, v. [f. as prec. + -ize.] trans. To render occidental; to conform to or imbue with Western ideas or characteristics. Hence occiˈdentalized, occiˈdentalizing ppl. adjs.; also occiˌdentaliˈzation.
1870O. W. Holmes Mechanism in Th. & Mor. (1888) 113 To occidentalise and modernise the Asiatic modes of Thought which have come down to us. 1878Fraser's Mag. XVII. 62 The Occidentalised natives dressed in coats and trousers. 1888Athenæum 14 July 59/2 In Indo-China, in China, and in Japan the same process of occidentalization may be seen in operation. 1893F. Adams New Egypt 13 The result of his Occidentalising taste, at once so crude and so rudimentary. 1895Daily News 1 Oct. 6/3 Mr. Hearn..loves the old Japanese people more than..their modern ‘occidentalizing’ descendants. |