REPUBLICANIZE

Etymology

Verb

republicanize (third-person singular simple present republicanizes, present participle republicanizing, simple past and past participle republicanized)

(transitive) To convert (a state etc.) to republican principles.

Source: Wiktionary


Re*pub"lic*an*ize (-z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Republicanized (-zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Republicanizing (-`zng).] Etym: [Cf. F. républicaniser.]

Definition: To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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