v. [f. VASSAL sb.]
1. trans. = VASSAL v. 1.
1599. R. Linche, Anc. Fiction, C ij b. Since Asia was vassalized and subiugated to the Romanes.
1648. Cromwell, Lett. & Sp., 20 Nov. The former Quarrel was that Englishmen might rule over one another, this to vassalise us to a foreign nation.
1653. Chisenhale, Cath. Hist., 36. Their … close practises against all that will not … vassalize themselves to their impious Lord and Master.
1670. in E. B. Jupp, Carpenters’ Co. (1887), 308. All other workemen depending on the same must lye adle [sic] and bee vassalized to their rudenes and exorbitances.
2. = VASSAL v. 2.
1641. March, Act. for Slaunder, 7. He might seize all his estate … and vassalize his person at pleasure.
1654. Spittlehouse, Vind. Fifth-Mon. Men, 5. Against all arbitiary or absolute power … vassalizing the Saints and People of God in this Commonwealth.
1848. Lowell, Fable for Critics, 1506. To vassalize old tyrant Winter.
Hence Vassalized ppl. a., Vassalizing vbl. sb.
1647. Maids’ Petition, 3. Till then, wee’le remaine your *Vassalized Virgins.
1841. T. MacQueen, in Poets Ayrsh., 216. It marked the deep bondage of vassalised man.
1607. Walkington, Opt. Glass, 80. The *vassalizing of the rebellious affections.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 215. Therefore the meat is not yet fully transchanged, unless when its own Archeus being subdued, our vital one is introduced with a full vassallizing of the former.
