v. [f. TEUTON + -IZE.] trans. To make or render Tentonic or German.
1845. Blackw. Mag., LVII. 478. After Teutonising the Hebrew in this manner, he next proceeds to the Egyptian.
1867. Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. iii. 126. Those Celtic lands … had been … to a great extent Teutonized.
1882. Sat. Rev., 17 June, 768/1. Justified in treating, for all practical purposes, as Teutonic a nation so thoroughly Teutonized.
b. intr. To conform to Teutonism; to play the Teuton.
1882. in Ogilvie (Annandale).
Hence Teutonizing vbl. sb.; Teutonization, the action or process of rendering or being made Teutonic or German.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr., IV. x. (1864), II. 435. The Franks now … shared with the Romans the great hierarchical dignities…. This Teutonising of the hierarchy [etc.].
1872. D. H. Haigh, in Archæol. Cantiana, VIII. 18. From Kent the Teutonization of Britain began.
1878. Fraser’s Mag., XVIII. 571. His style underwent a process of Teutonisation.
