republicanize en · VERB
Etymology
From republican + -ize. Compare French républicaniser.
Meanings
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(transitive) To convert (a state etc.) to republican principles.
To republicanize the rising generation, the convention of the people of South-Carolina made it the duty of the constituted authorities to do away this accompaniment of royalty as far as was compatible with liberty.
1809, David Ramsay, The History of South-Carolina:June 14, 1807, Thomas Jefferson, "Letter to John Norvell" He has taken the text of Hume as his ground work, abridging it by the omission of some details of little interest, and wherever he has found him endeavoring to mislead, by either the suppression of a truth or by giving it a false coloring, he has changed the text to what it should be, so that we may properly call it Hume’s history republicanised.
France was republicanized.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| republicanized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| republicanized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| republicanizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| republicanizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |