Torifyv.
/ˈtɔːrᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈtɔrəˌfaɪ/ Usually somewhat depreciative.
transitive. To imbue (someone or something) with the principles or outlook of the Tories or Tory Party (and later the British or Canadian Conservative Party); to make Tory.Usually as a past participial adjective before mid 19th cent.: see Torified adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [verb (transitive)] > make a Tory of
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Toryize1839
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1682 Loyal Medal Vindicated Pref. sig. A2 Let none admire that he that could so Deifie an Usurper, does afterwards endeavour to expiate that Crime, by Torifying the Government of a Legal Monarch.
1773 London Chron. 7 Sept. 241/1 Whoever would not be Toryfied,..it is necessary that he hold the Massachusetts Creed.
1853 G. C. Lewes Lett. 262 Most of his [sc. Gladstone's] High church supporters stick to him, and..he is Liberalizing them, instead of their Torifying him.
1933 Times 8 July 13/6 Let the politicians work that the Church should no more be Torified: they would work that it should be duly glorified.
2016 Observer (Nexis) 24 Jan. In its aims to Torify Britain, it is more Putinesque than it cares to acknowledge.
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ˈTorifying adj.
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1837 Leeds Times 1 Apr. 4/2 Every rebuff of that old and insolent faction is a good in itself. It is, besides, a useful monition to the Whigs, of what they must come to if they be not very careful in the indulgence of their own Torifying propensities.
2015 R. Gravil Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation new ed. 341 The torifying factors may include critical derision for his poetic experiments from Napoleon's fellow travellers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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