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autocolonial en · ADJ · etymology 1

From auto- + colonial.

(not-comparable) Involving only the culture of a colonizing force; reflecting complete assimilation.
- In part, Siam avoided external rule by proffering and employing autocolonial practices to demonstrate its siwilai (civilized) status (Winichakul 1994, 2000, 2010). 2019, Catherine G. Valentine, Mary Nell Trautner, Joan Z. Spade, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities:
- It tends to reject the monologue of either autocolonial, assimilationist, English-only verse or the monologue of nationalist Spanish-only verse. 1994, Alfred Arteaga, An Other Tongue:
- Its modern conception as a boundary separating the cultivated from the wild is a palimpsest; below this persists the remaindered reality of a porous zone that challenges colonial or autocolonial demarcation. 2013, Anat Pick, Guinevere Narraway, Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human, page 94:
- Psychologically, he symbolizes the problem of adolescence that strives to express and define itself in an adult world that discourages originality; politically, he refuses to be appropriated by dominant autocolonial discourse […] 2005, Ann González, Sí Pero No, page 64:

From autocolony + -al.

(not-comparable) Pertaining to an autocolony.
- Single-chambered globular forms with attachment scars, in the Late Ordovician Maysville Group of Kentucky, are most likely referrable to Sorosphaera tricella Moreman, 1930 inasmuch as such specimens occur with autocolonial specimens of S. tricella. 1981, James Elvin Conkin, Barbara M. Conkin, Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian) Smaller Foraminifera from the McCraney Limestone of Missouri and Illinois, page 12:
- This may be because the formation of autocolonies within the mother cell wall is a considerable advance over the condition of free-lying spherical cells, and because along with the development of this autocolonial habit there has gone almost necessarily an axial differentiation of the individual cells. 1914, Gilbert Morgan Smith, The Organization of the Colony in Certain Four-celled Coenobic Algae, page 1175: