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Italianize, v.|ɪˈtælɪənaɪz|
[a. F. Italianiser (16th c. in Littré): cf. Italian and -ize.]
1. intr. (also in phr. to Italianize it): To practise Italian fashions or habits; to become Italian (in character, tastes, etc.).
1611Cotgr., Italianizer, to Italianize it; to speake Italian, play the Italian, doe like an Italian. 1656Blount, Italianize. 1658in Phillips.
2. trans. To make Italian in character or style.
1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 136 Nol's Latin clerks were somewhat Italianiz'd. 1729Middleton Let. fr. Rome (1741) 170 The adding of a modern termination, or Italianizing the old name of a Deity, has given existence to some of their present Saints. 1832Fraser's Mag. V. 729 She Italianised her Christian name. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge II. 46 The Hall was new wainscoted and thoroughly Italianized.
Hence Iˈtalianized ppl. a., Iˈtalianizing vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also Iˌtalianiˈzation, the action or process of Italianizing, an Italianized formation; Iˈtalianizer, one who Italianizes.
a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xix. 159 A Chironomatick Italianising of his Demand, with various Jectigation of his Fingers. 1771Mrs. Harris in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury I. 217 Louisa is gone to the oratorio, a great condescension for so Italianised a lady. 1847Ld. Lindsay Chr. Art I. p. ccxvi, Mabuse, Van Orley, and the Italianisers of Antwerp—imitators chiefly of Raphael. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. vi. iii. (1864) III. 430 This absolute Italianisation of the Pope. 1880H. Nicol in Academy 24 July 57 We have Old French, Modern French, Italianisations, Latin expansions, and English abbreviations used indiscriminately. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. II. App. 46 European of a comparatively late and Italianising type. 1900Pilot 4 Aug. 140/2 There is only one example of the Italianising masters of Fontainebleau. |
