Namierize

English

Alternative forms

• namierize, Namierise, namierise

Etymology

Namier +‎ -ize, from Lewis Namier (1888–1960), British historian.

Verb

Namierize (third-person singular simple present Namierizes, present participle Namierizing, simple past and past participle Namierized)

1. To explain history or political science by means of Namierization.
   • 1971, Alter F. Landesman, Brownsville: the birth, development, and passing of a Jewish community in New York, page ix:

     To "Namierize" Brownsville, showing how much each person there contributed to its peculiar American-Jewish civilization, and how it contributed to their culture, and to indicate why one person went one way, and another turned in another direction would require many volumes and be beyond the goal which Dr. Landesman set himself.

   • 1974, Walter Laqueur, George Lachmann Mosse, Historians in politics, page 351:

     For a profession dedicated to examining the changing circumstances and background of historical developments, we have been unusually disinclined to scrutinize ourselves in such a manner; perhaps someone should 'Namierize' the historians, their inclinations and backgrounds, and what they think of their subject ?

   • 1979, The Eighteenth Century - Volume 20, page 106:

     R. Walcott's attempt to Namierize this period has very properly been discounted by later writers and critics.