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Napoleonize en · VERB

Etymology

From Napoleon + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To rule completely.
2. (transitive) To aggrandize.
   • This did Thayer in a little over a decade Napoleonize the Military Academy and move it far to the right of what was intended by its founders, blending in typical knightly style the ideal of formal religious worship and a highly regulated system of physiacl training, as well as a tattletale system of honor. 2004, Robert J. Higgs, God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 80:

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