Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make hostile; cause to become an enemy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To make
hostile ; to cause to become anenemy .
Etymologies
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hostile + -ize
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Examples
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Although it has been done, perhaps, with a liberal view, it would seem that the measure was taken to hostilize the Mexican Government, preventing thus any advance from being made to said Government on future export duties on silver or gold, and depriving it of that resource.
General Scott Wright, Gen Marcus J 1893
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