v. Now rare. Also 7 Spagn(i)ol-. [f. as prec. + -IZE. Cf. obs. F. espagnoliser, and ESPANOLIZE v., HISPANIOLIZE v.] trans. To make Spanish; to imbue with Spanish notions or tendencies; to cause to follow Spanish fashions. (Chiefly in pa. pple.)
1598. Dallington, Meth. Trav., F iv. Like Traitors falsly hearted, or Frenchmen truly Spaniolized.
1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, IV. 1485. Their phrase was much mixt with Spanish, for now they are all Spaniolized.
1662. J. Bargrave, Pope Alex. VII. (1867), 73. He himself seemeth to be neutral; yet most think that upon occasion he would prove Spaniolized.
a. 1743. Ozell, trans. Brantome’s Sp. Rhodomontades (1744), 16. He was a Gascon but perfectly Spanioliz’d.
Hence Spaniolized, Spaniolizing ppl. adjs.
1600. O. E., Repl. Libel, Pref. p. iv. The trecherie of Spaniolized papistes.
1603. Florio, Montaigne (1634), 133. To become slender in wast, and to have a straight spagnolized body.
1627. H. Burton, Baiting of Pope’s Bull, To Reader 3. A fawning spanolizing Spaniell, silenced with a fat morsell, or a little spettle.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., II. Wks. 1851, III. 47. A Tympany of Spanioliz’d Bishops swaggering in the fore-top of the State.
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, II. II. 157. He makes himself notorious by his defending the interest of Spain, he being one of the most Spanioliz’d Cardinals of them all.
1888. Sat. Rev., 20 Oct., 1. The stronger but ruder stock of the already Spaniolized Hapsburgs.
