citizenizev.
/ˈsɪtᵻzənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈsɪdᵻzəˌnaɪz/, /ˈsɪdᵻsəˌnaɪz/ transitive. To make a citizen (in various senses of the noun); esp. to naturalize (a foreigner or immigrant).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [verb (transitive)] > make like town- or city-dweller
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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [verb (transitive)] > admit to citizen's rights > naturalize
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endenizen1592
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nationalize1809
1798 W. Cobbett in Porcupine's Gaz. 19 June 3/4 Genet, like Dr. Reynolds, has citizenized himself; but Genet, you see yet receives dispatches from the Tyrants of France!
1824 T. Pickering Rev. Corr. J. Adams & W. Cunningham iv. 126 This Prince [Talleyrand] is a citizen of Pennsylvania. He was citizenized when there in the form of a French emigrant.
1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 325 No man can be citizenized in this corner of the world.
1900 Race Probl. of South (Southern Soc. Promotion Study Race Relations) 106 Slavery was abolished and the freedmen were citizenized and enfranchised.
1977 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 12 1737/3 An Indo-Ceylon pact has agreed to repatriate half their number while citizenising the rest.
2009 J. Pfister Yale Indian p. xii The Carlisle Industrial School for Indians..defined its mission..as ‘civilizing’, ‘Americanizing’, and ‘citizenizing’ Indian students.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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