orientalizev.
/ˌɔːrɪˈɛntl̩ʌɪz/, /ˌɔːrɪˈɛntəlʌɪz/, /ˌɒrɪˈɛntl̩ʌɪz/, /ˌɒrɪˈɛntəlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌɔriˈɛn(t)lˌaɪz/ 1. transitive. To make oriental; to give an oriental character to.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [verb (transitive)] > eastern
orientalize1810
1810 J. Mackintosh Jrnl. 14 Dec. in R. J. Mackintosh Life (1835) II. v. 71 At Aurungabad they remembered him, but had completely orientalised his name.
1853 A. H. Clough Let. 9 Sept. in S. Longfellow Final Memorials H. W. Longfellow (1887) iii. 40 He had not Orientalized himself in the least.
1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur ii. vii Groves of palm-trees orientalized the landscape.
1923 Amer. Hist. Rev. 29 115 The attempt to Hellenize the South Russian steppes was not a complete success; much more successful was the attempt to orientalize the semi-Greek world of the northern shores of the Black Sea.
1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 5 July c20 The restaurant is on the second story of an aging building in a former English-style bar and grill. The Thai family that took over did not try to Orientalize it.
1991 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 42 318 It is true that Norden and Wolfson both had special agendas in their desire to ‘orientalize’ the idea of the divine unknowability.
2. † b. intransitive. To think in a manner appropriate to Eastern Christian theology. Obsolete. rare.
a. intransitive. To become oriental in character.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [verb (intransitive)] > become oriental
orientalize1813
1813 Ld. Byron Let. 28 Aug. (1974) III. 101 If it has had any success, that also will prove that the public are orientalizing, and pave the way for you.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 146/2 The occidental world orientalises rapidly.
2002 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 14 July f4 Russian mysticism, disconnected from Christianity, easily orientalizes.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [verb (intransitive)] > act, speak, or think as an oriental
orientalize1870
1870 Contemp. Rev. 14 338 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.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relate or orient oneself to something [verb (reflexive)]
orientalize1823
orient1850
relate1856
1823 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 56 18 Capt. Kennedy will not have the same difficulty..to orientalize himself (s'orienter) in this book.
Derivatives
orientaliˈzation n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > eastern people > making eastern
orientalizing1879
orientalization1886
orientation1914
1886 R. F. Burton in Academy 23 Oct. 277/3 Thus what I may call the Orientalisation of the French ‘Nights’ has been done for me.
1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 June 65/2 It is difficult to tell whether we are witnessing a Westernization of Oriental values or an Orientalization of Western values.
oriˈentalized adj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [adjective] > eastern people
orientalizing1818
orientalized1846
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 564 Congenial to their orientalised turn of thought.
1996 Entertainm. Weekly 19 Apr. 78/1 But this all-instrumental EP—13 tracks of jazzed-out percussion..and the occasional orientalized violin..should leave no doubt about where the grooviness really comes from.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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