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  • These he confesseth to be the worst of our late bishops, with such as Romanized and tyrannized among them, with their clergy creatures and favourites, persons many of them of superstition, looseness, and much profaneness.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • The foederati were men of jealously separate nations, never Romanized, and felt no bond of kinship with the peoples of the provinces.

    superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010

  • The pre-Roman name, the Latin (our culture is a Romanized one, don't forget), and the castle being of course a visual testament to the spirit that made its construction necessary.

    It's moderation, Jim, but not as we know it. 2009

  • By conquering the Romanized Britons, they were faced with massive stone works and elaborate Celtic designs that seemed to come from a lost era of glory (called the “work of giants” in Seafarer).

    Ubi sunt | clusterflock 2009

  • But they use a homonym for the Chinese characters for harmony, which are Romanized as "hexie," that instead means "river crab."

    Internet Users Invent Ways to Outwit Beijing's Censors Jeremy Page 2011

  • This spelling is discouraged by some, since it would be pronounced differently in Spanish, into which it was first Romanized.

    The Worst Mexican Restaurant on Earth 2009

  • And the English became Romanized hardly at all, to the point where we are writing in English, not a Romance language.

    The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010

  • I think early writers generally took 'Romans' in a somewhat literal way to mean people from Rome, not as shorthand for 'Romanized,' as we tend to use it now.

    The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010

  • No doubt that was how Romanized landowners 150 years earlier saw things, when the 'Count of the Saxon Shore' was supposed to keep them in hand.

    The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010

  • Billy stood an easy six inches higher than her as they exited The Lot into the intertwined cement walkways lined in vibrant, clean cut lawns between benches, blooming bundles of roses, high-stretched poplars, even higher palms and countless red-bricked, Romanized colleges.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 3 2009

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