v. Also 6 souldiour-, 7 souldierize, 9 Sc. sodgerise. [f. SOLDIER sb. + -IZE.]
1. intr. To serve as a soldier. Also with it.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 93. What Gentleman hath been cast away at Sea, or disasterly souldiouriz’d it by Land, but they [usurers] haue enforst him thereunto.
1611. Cotgr., Militer, to warre, goe a warfaring…; to souldierize it.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 77. 2/1. We do … think it lawful for you to Soldierize.
1836. J. Mayne, Siller Gun, iv. Marching wi’ drums and fires for ever—A’ sodgerising!
2. trans. To make into a soldier.
1611. Cotgr., Soldatisé, souldierized, made a souldier.
1798. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), V. 143. The male youth and middle life of England are, you know, all soldierized and gone to camps and coasts.
1843. J. J. Gurney, Mem. (1854), II. 369. All the male inhabitants are for a time soldierized when young.
3. To alter after the manner of soldiers.
1891. S. Mostyn, Curatica, 130. The dog, Fidèle by name—soldierized into the Fiddler—had come to my cousin from a brother officer.
