v. rare. [f. SULTAN sb. + -IZE.] 1. intr. To rule as a sultan or despot.
1772. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mann, 5 March. Fifty grand signors have lost their heads for one Charles I., and he might have kept his, if he had not sultanised.
2. trans. To make sultan-like or despotic.
1901. Q. Rev., Jan., 72–3. Charnock is about our earliest specimen of the Anglo-Indian ‘Nabob,’ of the orientalised, in this case the somewhat sultanised, Englishman.
