† cantonizev.
Obsolete.
1.
a. transitive. To divide into portions or parts; ‘to parcel out into small divisions’ (Johnson); to form into cantons.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > divide into administrative areas [verb (transitive)]
cantonize1608
canton1619
district1792
shire1810
to map out1860
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into parcels or portions
parcel1416
cantc1440
to cantle out1583
share1595
parcellize1606
cantle1607
cantonize1608
partition1740
parcellate1927
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 81 To Cantonnize the State.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 135 And thus was all Ireland Cantonized among tenne persons of the English Nation.
1701 Argument for War 20 An unwarrantable reason for cantonizing the Spanish Territories.
1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. ii. 57 Those kindred countries were each cantonized into many tribes.
b. to cantonize out: to separate.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from main body
skillc1175
to tell outc1325
shillc1440
sequestrate1513
sorta1535
shoal1571
segregate1579
dismember1580
single1582
scatter1588
disgregate1593
recond1608
sepone1619
sequester1625
canton1653
to cantonize outa1670
portion1777
to set off1795
to comb out1854
distinguish1866
split1924
hive off1931
section1960
separate1962
a1670 J. Hacket Cent. Serm. (1675) 818 God cantonized out for himself but Twelve Families or Tribes out of all the Kingdoms of the Earth.
2. intransitive. To separate (oneself) into, or form, an independent community. Also to cantonize it. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [verb (intransitive)] > process
canton1611
cantonize1611
segment1940
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Se Cantonner, to canton, or cantonnize, it; to seuer themselues from the rest of their fellowes, or from the bodie of a State, and fortifie, quarter, or erect a new State, apart.
1693 Introd. Breviary Hist. Eng. 6 Whether any parties did cantonize or were free Estates, or Commonwealths.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 73 To cantonize is natural; when the Society grows vast, and bulky.
1809 Edinb. Rev. 13 458.
3. transitive. To canton (troops); to locate.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > provide with temporary accommodation > place in temporary accommodation
quarter1588
billet1605
to put in (also to) pension?1605
cantonize1626
board1655
society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > quarter (troops) [verb (transitive)]
furry1579
quarter1588
billet1599
cantonize1626
enquarter1642
canton1700
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 127 The Diuells and Furyes were cantonnized.
c1674 Scotland's Griev. under Lauderdale 36 Neither is he content to have thus cantonized those [ministers] that were licensed.
Derivatives
cantonized adj.
cantonizing n. and adj.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > process > types of
cantonizing1611
diffusion1871
social differentiation1872
acculturation1880
feminization1901
mobilization1911
acculturalization1929
mimesis1934
schismogenesis1935
stimulus diffusion1940
transculturation1941
nativism1943
massification1946
villagization1954
1611 [implied in: R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cantonné, cantonned, or cantonnized; seuered from the rest of their fellows, and fortified, or quartered apart. (at cantoned adj. 1)].
1650 W. Davenant Pref. to Gondibert 22 Their cantonizing in Tribes.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 73 Sedition is a kind of cantonizing already begun within the State.
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