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Webster 1913 Edition


Republicanize

Re-pub′lic-an-ize

(-?z)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Republicanized
(-?zd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Republicanizing
(-?ˊz?ng)
.]
[Cf. F.
républicaniser
.]
To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles;
as, France was
republicanized
; to
republicanize
the rising generation.
D. Ramsay.

Webster 1828 Edition


Republicanize

REPUB'LICANIZE

,
Verb.
T.
To convert to republican principles; as, to republicanize the rising generation.

Definition 2024


republicanize

republicanize

English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To convert (a state etc.) to republican principles.
    France was republicanized.
    • 1809, David Ramsay, The History of South-Carolina
      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.