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from The Century Dictionary.
- To render colonial in character.
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Examples
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The ships that the Europeans used to explore, conquer and colonialize in the fiftieth and sixteenth centuries ranged from Columbus's flagship Santa Maria, which measured around eight-six feet, to Francis Drake's famous Golden Hinde, which was about seventy feet long.
Jim Luce: Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet Found in Japan Jim Luce 2011
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The ships that the Europeans used to explore, conquer and colonialize in the fiftieth and sixteenth centuries ranged from Columbus's flagship Santa Maria, which measured around eight-six feet, to Francis Drake's famous Golden Hinde, which was about seventy feet long.
Jim Luce: Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet Found in Japan Jim Luce 2011
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However, scholars should question whether nonwestern anti-colonial Indian nationalist discourse would have emerged to the extent it did if the British had not insisted, to the extent they did, to conquer and colonialize India's private spiritual and familial domain rather than only India's materialistic and public worldly domain.
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One of the rallying cries for the Jihadists not the cause, but an emotional element the Jihadists tap into for support is that the Western powers intend to occupy and colonialize Iraq.
"Soldiers in Iraq Say Pullout Would Have Devastating Results." Ann Althouse 2006
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But it had failed to colonialize the inner [spiritual, familial, and cultural space], essential, identity of the East [Indian traditional culture] which lay in its distinctive, and superior, spiritual culture [the way Indian indigenous nationalists conceptualized it]. (
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