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oriˈentalize, v.
[f. oriental a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To make oriental; to give an oriental character to.
1823Moore Mem. (1853) IV. 41 [He] disapproves of my idea of orientalising the ‘Angels’. 1853Clough in Longfellow's Life (1891) II. 258 He had not Orientalized himself in the least. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur ii. vii, Groves of palm-trees orientalized the landscape.
¶b. Badly used to render F. orienter: = orient v., orientate. Obs.
1823W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. LVI. 18 Capt. Kennedy will not have the same difficulty..to orientalize himself (s'orienter) in this book.
2. intr.
a. To become oriental in character.
b. To play the Oriental; to act, speak, or think as an Oriental.
1829Landor Imag. Conv., Emp. China Wks. 1853 II. 146/2 The occidental world orientalises rapidly. 1870Contemp. Rev. XIV. 338 He will perhaps intimate that St. Paul ‘orientalizes’ in ascribing to the personal agency of Christ what he would, had he been used to our more discriminating western analysis, have ascribed only to the fascination exercised by his own thought of Christ.
Hence oriˈentalized ppl. a.; also orientaliˈzation.
1846Grote Greece i. xvi. I. 564 Congenial to their orientalised turn of thought. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece xi. 345 The fine-drawn subtleties of the Orientalised Hellenist. 1886R. F. Burton in Academy 23 Oct. 277/3 Thus what I may call the Orientalisation of the French ‘Nights’ has been done for me. |