v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] trans. To make territorial; to place upon a territorial basis; to associate with or restrict to a particular territory or district. Hence Territorialization.
1818. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1836), I. 158. The Pope had recently territorialized his authority to a great extent.
1897. Maitland, Domesday & Beyond, 157. It is not probable that the territorializing process will stop here. Ibid., 165. In the territorialization of military service.
1899. Educat. Rev., Nov., 379. What is called by students of railway, questions the ‘territorialization’ of railways has been wellnigh accomplished.
1901. Scotsman, 11 March, 6/3. His plan … demanded the territorialisation of the army.
