单词 | revolutionize |
释义 | revolutionizev. 1. a. transitive. To imbue (a person or thing) with revolutionary principles or ideas; to make revolutionary. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] revolutionize1795 sansculottize1798 1795 tr. F. D’Ivernois Short Acc. Late Revol. Geneva 58 They seem determined to sap [Fr. porter la sappe révolutionnaire] the very foundation of the Edifice, by revolutionizing the principles of the rising generation. 1827 Ann. Reg., Hist. 255/2 Officers who had revolutionized their regiments and joined the rebels. 1870 R. Anderson Hist. Missions Amer. Board II. xii. 95 A reported threat..that..he would seize the prince and his sister, and revolutionize the government. 1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday i. 19 You don't expect me..to revolutionise society on this lawn? 1966 V. Vezey tr. M. D. Bonch-Bruevich Tsarist Gen. to Red Army Commander iii. 219 The Bolshevik Party's policy of turning the imperialist war into a civil war..had done much to revolutionise the army even before the downfall of the tsarist regime. 2000 L. Schein Minority Rules i. 14 The broad dissemination of culture to revolutionize the masses was a hallmark of the Maoist period. b. transitive. To bring (a country or state) under a revolutionary form of government. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] > bring under revolutionary government revolutionize1796 1796 D. St. Quentin tr. C. A. de Calonne Polit. State Europe Pref. p. xxiii To advance the civilization of Germany..means, in revolutionary jargon, neither more nor less, than to revolutionize Germany [Fr. mettre l'Allemagne en révolution]. 1849 R. Cobden Speeches 38 It was not an unnatural thing that men..should have been seized with the idea of revolutionising the country. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 39 The object of these invaders has been to revolutionize Bulgaria. 1922 P. N. Miliukov Russia To-day & To-morrow v. 102 They prepared for the spring of 1919 an extensive scheme for revolutionizing the whole of middle Europe. 1964 R. R. Palmer Age Democratic Revol. II. i. 14 It was not the purpose of the French to revolutionize other countries by the war. 2005 S. Greenhalgh & E. A. Winckler Governing China's Population i. iii. 63 In 1949 the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] was preoccupied with revolutionizing China. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > engage in revolution [verb (intransitive)] sansculottize1798 revolute1807 revolutionize1817 1817 Lit. Gaz. 19 Apr. 206/3 Whenever the people revolutionize,..that society and empire, are, in a certain measure, already gone. 1854 Semi-Centennial Anniv. Vermont 98 Boys like men will revolutionize, And put to straits the wisdom of the wise. 1874 Law Times 10 Jan. 185/1 It must not be supposed that the English make no revolutions; on the contrary, they revolutionize to a great extent. 2. transitive. To change (a thing) completely or fundamentally; to reorganize or reconstruct in a radically different way; to transform. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > cause sudden or complete change [verb (transitive)] permute?a1425 permue?c1450 revolutionize1798 revolution1805 revolutionalize1868 1798 S. Fortnum Waldorf I. xxiii. 142 The knowledge she had newly acquired, had completely revolutionised her conduct. 1831 Gardener's Mag. 7 705 This practice, with green crops ploughed in, as far as the climate will permit, would revolutionise the face of the whole of this country. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 411 The opening of the Indies, East and West, revolutionized the channels and the direction of commerce. 1921 Philos. Rev. 30 494 The principle of selection by reformulating familiar facts revolutionized men's thoughts. 1948 Business Week 13 Mar. 24/1 If Huebner makes his Electronographic press work, he will revolutionize printing press design. 2004 J. Playfair Living with Germs ii. 30 Penicillin has revolutionized the treatment of pneumococcal pneumonia. Derivatives revolutioniˈzation n. ΚΠ 1871 Cornhill Mag. May 537 In these days of revolutionization, the main point to be avoided in building is to give any edifice such a distinctive aspect as to make its sudden transformation difficult. 1921 Columbia Law Rev. 21 808 It is unthinkable that the legislature intended such a revolutionization of the law of trusts. 2009 Toronto Star (Nexis) 7 Apr. a 19 Today, the cinema has the task of contributing to the development of people to be true Communists and to the revolutionization and working-classization of the whole of society. revoˈlutionized adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [adjective] > brought under revolutionary government revolutionized1798 1798 R. Clifford tr. A. Barruel Mem. Hist. Jacobinism IV. xiii. 496 He was about to receive the price of his zeal by being elected chief of the revolutionized [Fr. révolutionné] Canton of Argau. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 331 Woe to him who teaches a revolutionized nation that there are two issues to an engagement! 1920 H. W. Laidler Socialism in Thought & Action ii. xi. 327 The continuance of the war would lead to physical exhaustion of the revolutionized proletariat and the fruits of the revolution would be sacrificed. 1996 P. R. Gorman Left Intellectuals & Pop. Culture in 20th Cent. Amer. vi. 142 A revolutionized socioeconomic order was poised to clear the way for a new cultural flowering. revoˈlutionizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [adjective] revolutional1796 revolutionizing1797 catastrophic1837 cataclysmic1851 cataclysmal1861 catastrophical1876 upheaving1881 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun] > production of revolutionizing1797 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > bringing under revolutionary government revolutionizing1797 revolutionizement1820 1797 tr. F. Pagès Secret Hist. French Revol. II. xxix. 251 The nation were eager for good laws, for peace and happiness, because it was tired of revolutionizing and being revolutionized. 1797 G. Penn Remarks Renewed Negotiation for Peace 14 The revival of the revolutionizing clubs has raised the apprehensions of that very government. 1854 M. Evans tr. L. Feuerbach Essence Christianity vii. 77 Words possess a revolutionizing force; words govern mankind. 1882 Standard 5 Oct. 3/2 To prevent..the revolutionising and distracting of that country. 1920 Playground Apr. 14 The quickening of community consciousness and the new appreciation of the value of team work..are having a revolutionizing effect on the community recreation movement. 1966 Negro Digest Oct. 78/1 Through literature, theater and art, the revolutionizing of the consciousness of the black people can be achieved. 2004 H. Redner Conserving Cultures i. 41 The new technological marvels..for the creation of new media and the revolutionizing of the old. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > bringing under revolutionary government revolutionizing1797 revolutionizement1820 1820 Ann. Reg. 1819 (Otridge ed.) ii. Statistics & Hist. 503/1 A few days before the revolutionisement of Venice. revoˈlutionizer n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary innovator1598 revolver1698 revolutionist1710 sansculotte1790 revolutionary1795 revolutionizer1798 revolutioner1803 descamisado1821 radical1822 sansculottist1833 revolutionaire1835 red republican1848 redshirt1889 Bolshevik1926 Young Turk1948 1798 Matter of Fact for Multitude 27 This revolutionizer and arbiter of the fate of empires, would suffer invading armies to land upon your shores. 1818 Blackwood's Mag. 4 308 The share of all ill-timed and unfortunate revolutionizers. 1895 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 181/1 Saint-Malo bore the revolutioniser of prose decades before any other town in France could boast a coadjutor to him. 1960 A. B. Ulam Unfinished Revol. iv. 143 The English capitalist..is no longer the ceaseless entrepreneur and revolutionizer of economic life. 2000 Isis 91 795/2 For the most part, historians have declined to consider Lyell a revolutionizer of geological science. 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