v. Also 6–9 turkise, 7 turkeise; 9 turcise. [f. TURK1 + -IZE.]

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  1.  trans. To render Turkish.

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1599.  in Archpriest Controv. (Camden), I. 220. All three words of one significacion, viz. turkized atheism.

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1625.  Purchas, Pilgrims, II. vi. Pref. 1464. A halfe-turkised Christian with divers Turkes following immediatly after.

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1911.  Q. Rev., April, 471. The ‘Turcising’ of the Ottoman Empire which is one of the objects of the Young Turk party.

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  2.  intr. To play the Turk; † to tyrannize over.

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1599.  in Archpriest Controv. (Camden), I. 97. Blackwell, yt will turkise over vs to vrge our consent by violent force.

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1600.  W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 169. The Iesuits … would Turkize ouer vs in that shamelesse manner.

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1612.  T. James, Jesuits’ Downf., 2. They vse to turkize over men in a shameful maner, nay, it were better to liue vnder the Turke.

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1862.  Cunningham, Hist. Theol. (1864), I. xx. 629. A book … called ‘Calvinus Turcisans’ or Calvin Turkising,—that is teaching the doctrine of the Turks or Mohometans.

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