Hispaniolise

English

Verb

Hispaniolise (third-person singular simple present Hispaniolises, present participle Hispaniolising, simple past and past participle Hispaniolised)

1. Alternative form of Hispaniolize
   • 1849, The Court and Times of Charles the First:

     And, by occasion of it, a privy councillor, whispering another in the ear, wished that fenestration were the reward of such that had their tongues so Hispaniolised.

   • 1906, Thomas Cleland Dawson, The South American Republics, →ISBN:

     No efforts were spared to Hispaniolise the Inca nobles, and native chiefs who could prove their right by descent were formally allowed to exercise jurisdiction as magistrates.

   • 1997, Adolphus William Ward, A History of English Dramatic Literature, →ISBN, page 277:

     Yet although, as will be seen immediately, Lyly found a model of prose composition in a Spanish writer belonging to an earlier period of the Renascence age, he had too sound and too sincere a literary sense to Hispaniolise, Italianate, or Gallicise his English either in vocabulary or in syntax.