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pedestrianize, v.|pɪˈdɛstrɪənaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
a. intr. To act the pedestrian; to go or travel on foot; to walk. Also to pedestrianize it.
1811Shelley in Hogg Life (1858) I. 399, I intend to pedestrianize. 1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 10 You must pedestrianize it for a few unmeasured miles over hill and dale.
b. intr. To produce something commonplace or unremarkable; trans. to make (something) commonplace or prosaic.
1838W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. i. iii. 57 We want a designer for wood-cuts..who would pedestrianize in simple style. 1945W. de la Mare in Trans. R. Soc. Lit. XXII. 99 Genius originates what talent pedestrianizes.
c. To make accessible only to pedestrians; to make into a pedestrian precinct.
1963Observer 15 Dec. 6/6 He [sc. Prof. Buchanan] even suggested that some of these central streets..should be closed to traffic and, in the jargon, pedestrianised. 1969Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 7 (caption) Chancellors Way..which will become pedestrianised when the new building..is completed. 1971Hansard Lords: Official Rep. Comm. Highways Bill, 1st Sitting 28 Apr. 11/1 The need for this provision is particularly clear where the street pattern in historic towns is being redesigned, and where it is designed to ‘pedestrianise’ a street and to construct a new road to give access to shop premises. 1973Guardian 12 Oct. 15/2 The great effort to pedestrianise Carnaby Street. 1977Listener 17 Feb. 207/3 All the streets around here—for the first time in Paris—have been pedestrianized.
Hence peˈdestrianized ppl. a.; peˌdestrianiˈzation; peˈdestrianizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1834A. Walton Tour Banks Thames 141 Setting forth the advantages of pedestrianising. 1861Sat. Rev. 14 Sept. 275 Englishmen are distinguishable among the nations of the earth as pedestrianising animals. 1964Listener 3 Sept. 341/1 We have a maze of medieval alleys..— ideal for pedestrianization. 1966Economist 2 Apr. p. xv/1 After a look at what is for sale in those urbanely pedestrianised shops, one is tempted to scream it. 1967Times Rev. Industry Oct. 52/3 The medieval road pattern in the city centre..is ‘natural for pedestrians’ and he has an experimental scheme for pedestrianization of the upper High Street. 1971P. Gresswell Environment 182 Pedestrianisation is a clumsy word to describe a simple process: closing shopping streets to traffic. 1972Times 30 Dec. 16/4 The {pstlg}45,000 scheme will provide 370 yards of ‘pedestrianized’ roadway. 1973Country Life 15 Nov. 1575/2 It is to be hoped that extensive pedestrianisation and a one-way baffle system may be considered. 1974Oxford Times 18 Oct. 4 Members agreed to stick to their policy of banning all but emergency ambulances from pedestrianised streets and bus lanes. 1977Lancashire Life Aug. 34/1 The proof of Blackburn's pedestrianisation is in its perambulation. |
