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revolutionize, v.|rɛvəˈl(j)uːʃənaɪz|
[f. revolution n. + -ize.]
1. trans. To bring (a country or state) under a revolutionary form of government.
1797R. King in Life & Corr. (1895) II. 195 You will perceive by newspapers that all Italy will be overturned. Venice is no more; and Genoa has been completely revolutionized. 1797Nelson 25 Jan. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) III. 238 Naples must be revolutionized unless the Emperor acts with vigour and speed. 1815Wellington 5 Jan. in Gurw. Desp. (1838) XII. 237 He [Murat] knows he can revolutionize Italy, and will do so if it is necessary. 1849Cobden Speeches 38 It was not an unnatural thing that men..should have been seized with the idea of revolutionising the country. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 39 The object of these invaders has been to revolutionize Bulgaria.
2. To convert into revolutionary forms; to infect with revolutionary principles or ideas.
1797Earl Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. III. 380 They have not revolutionized..diplomatic forms and ceremonies. 1801Southey Lett. (1850) II. 175 Sometimes the poet is called a Jacobin; at others it is said that his opinions are revolutionised. 1827Ann. Reg., Hist. 255/2 Officers who had revolutionized their regiments and joined the rebels. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. II. xii. 95 A reported threat..that..he would seize the prince and his sister, and revolutionize the government.
3. To change (a thing) completely or fundamentally; to reorganize or reconstruct upon altogether new lines.
1799Southey in Life & Corr. (1850) II. 32 My father had..revolutionised two adjoining cottages into a dwelling-house. 1812Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 298 A violent motive may revolutionize a man's opinions and professions. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 42 The opening of the Indies..revolutionized the channels and the direction of commerce. 1881Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. ii. i. 163 Mysteries..were now preached again..and had revolutionised the ritual in our churches.
absol.1877Owen Wellesley's Desp. p. xliv, He revolutionizes under the guise of conservative readjustment.
4. intr. To engage in revolutions.
1854Semi-Centennial Anniv. Vermont 98 Boys like men will revolutionize, And put to straits the wisdom of the wise.
Hence revoˈlutionized ppl. a.; revoˈlutionizing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also revoˈlutionizement; revoˈlutionizer.
1815Q. Rev. XIV. 54 The moral or political virtues of the *revolutionized part of that country. 1851Gallenga Italy 331 Woe to him who teaches a revolutionized nation that there are two issues to an engagement!
1882Standard 5 Oct. 3/2 To prevent..the *revolutionising and distracting of that country. 1799J. Morse Sermon Exhibiting Present Dangers 17 The Clergy have been among the first victims to that sanguinary revolutionizing spirit which now convulses the world. 1854Geo. Eliot tr. Feuerbach's Essence of Christianity vii. 77 Words possess a revolutionizing force; words govern mankind. 1861G. Moore Lost Tribes 92 The revolutionizing influence of the Saxons who..took possession of..part of India.
1820Ann. Reg., Chron. 503 A few days before the *revolutionisement of Venice.
1818Blackw. Mag. IV. 308 The share of all ill-timed and unfortunate *revolutionizers. 1868Boyd Less. Mid. Age 289 Conservatism is ever the wall to be battered: aggressive reformers or revolutionisers are the head of the battering-ram. 1895Blackw. Mag. Feb. 181/1 Saint-Malo bore the revolutioniser of prose decades before any other town in France could boast a coadjutor to him. |