v. rare. [f. EXTERRITORIAL + -IZE.] trans. To secure the privileges of exterritoriality for; to withdraw (a person) from liability to the laws of the country in which he resides.
1870. Pall Mall Gaz., 5 Nov., 11/1. The Roman Catholic missionaries … in their ill-judged and indefensible attempts to exterritorialize their Chinese converts.
1871. Wade, in Hong Kong Daily Press, 27 Oct., 2/5. So long as we are compelled by the inferior civilization of China to exterritorialize our subjects within her dominions, we are bound to ask nothing from her except when we see our way to a fair provision for the control of the exterritorialized foreigner.
1925. F. Rawlinson, in Christian Century, 30 April, 572/1. Prior to 1900 this ‘right’ was already spoken of by some as a tendency to exterritorialize Chinese Christians that added to the anti-foreign irritation then emerging.
