单词 | plebeianize |
释义 | plebeianizev. transitive. To make plebeian, reduce to plebeian status; to make ordinary, popular, or vulgar. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > deprive of refinement [verb (transitive)] > vulgarize hackney1598 vulgarize1756 plebeianize1841 plebify1867 plebificate1869 kitsch1951 1841 C. Gore in Bentley's Misc. Dec. 587 [The butler] would be disgusted to find himself thus conspicuously plebeianised [by being ‘mistered’]. 1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 55 45 The new art, which, by plebeianizing knowledge and enlightening the mass, deprived the law and the prophets of half their terrors. 1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 256/1 She dropped the de, and thus plebeianised her name. 1882 Fraser's Mag. 26 343 It [sc. an inn] took to billiards, and became gradually plebeianised. 1963 Hist. & Theory 2 248 The spirit has been plebeianized and our poor brain can no longer cope with the world. 1998 Hist. Today (Nexis) June 9 The Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884, which had plebianised the electorate, could only be endured with the assurance of 500 noblemen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1841 |
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