v. [f. EUROPEAN a. + -IZE.] trans. To make European in appearance, form, habit, or mode of life.
1857. Sat. Rev., IV. 459/2. To suppose that India can be Europeanized through the pressure exerted by a mass of settlers.
1870. J. Macgregor, Rob Roy on Jordan, viii. 121. This is the only piece of real carriage-way in all Syria, and its presence … at once Europeanises the scene.
1880. K. Johnston, Lond. Geog., 82. In Japan ‘everything is being rapidly Europeanised.’
b. To make coextensive with Europe.
1857. T. E. Webb, Intellectualism Locke, i. 8. The reaction thus originated in Germany was … Europeanized by France.
Hence Europeanized ppl. a. Europeanizing vbl. sb.; also attrib.
1849. Curzon, Visits Monast., 72. The natty vessels which were more Europeanised and quicker than mine.
1874. Sayce, Compar. Philol., iv. 134. The most ‘Europeanised’ of the Turanian tongues.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., III. VI. cxiii. 626. In the Eastern cities the upper class is more Europeanized in its code of etiquette.
1887. Athenæum, 14 May, 634/3. Ismail Pasha’s Europeanizing policy.
