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单词 prussianize
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Prussianizev.

Brit. /ˈprʌʃn̩ʌɪz/, /ˈprʌʃənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈprəʃəˌnaɪz/
Forms: 1700s– Prussianize, 1800s– Prussianise. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Prussian adj., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < Prussian adj. + -ize suffix.
transitive. To make Prussian; to cause to resemble Prussia, its people, or its institutions, esp. in terms of organization, character, or ideology. Also intransitive: to adopt a manner regarded as typically Prussian.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > militarism > militarize [verb (transitive)]
Prussianize1762
militarize1856
Prussify1905
remilitarize1920
society > armed hostility > war > militarism > act militaristically [verb (intransitive)]
Prussianize1927
1762 H. Walpole Let. 31 July (1960) XXII. 58 One troop, who have been a little Prussianized, hesitated.
1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 167 To Prussianise his people or to Americanise it.
1891 Athenæum 22 Aug. 250/2 The recent efforts of Japan to prussianize her institutions.
1909 Q. Rev. 210 664 Since his [sc. Bismarck's] time there has been a steady attempt to prussianise them.
1927 ‘Ixion’ Further Motor Cycle Reminisc. 82 The victim [of the practical joke] occupied a minor official position, by dint of which he Prussianized rather too freely.
1976 Listener 19 Feb. 202/1 After 60 years, some Hanoverians, especially the military, had become Prussianised.
1990 Sun (Brisbane) 16 Oct. 44/1 Austria having long since been eliminated from the scene, the rest of Germany had had to submit to being ‘Prussianized’.

Derivatives

ˈPrussianized adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [adjective] > militarized
Prussianized1848
militarized1919
1848 Spectator 30 Dec. 1245/1 A Prussianized Germany, with Emperor Frederick William; or a twin Germany, under Frederick William and Maximilian.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Nov. 10/1 The very embodiment of didactic bureaucracy and Prussianized pedagogy.
2000 Scotsman (Nexis) 11 Nov. 8 The devious and domineering Chancellor had invented a Prussianised pan-German state by the time William became Kaiser.
ˈPrussianizing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > militarization
Prussianizing1867
Prussianization1868
Prussification1870
militarization1881
remilitarization1916
1867 Times 4 Jan. 6/6 Had the King only thrown out a hint that some such scheme as the Prussianizing of the army engaged the thoughts of his Government, the relief to his people would have been intense.
1917 K. Burke Let. 27 May in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 37 It seems that no small number of people have taken a vow to be shot rather than ceded to the ‘Prussianizing of America’.
1966 L. C. B. Seaman Post-Victorian Brit. 1902–51 viii. 93 To plan for the total defeat of Prussian militarism seemed likely to involve the Prussianizing of England itself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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