v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]
† 1. To make citizen-like or town-like. Obs.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 163. Be she but ciuily plaine, and in her apparrell cittizinizd, she is the goodwiues Niece, or neere kinswoman.
2. To make a citizen, naturalize as a citizen.
1802. Connecticut Courant, 25 Oct., 2/2. Between one and two hundred of whom have lately been citizenized at Wilmington.
c. 1811. T. Pickering (Bartl.). Talleyrand was citizenized in Pennsylvania, when there in the form of an emigrant.
1843. Blackw. Mag., LIV. 325. No man can be citizenized in this corner of the world.
1883. Village Daily Record (W. Chester PA.), 17 Dec., 3/2. Resolved, That the American Indian should be citizenized.
