Normandize

English

Alternative forms

• normandize

Etymology

From Normandy +‎ -ize.

Verb

Normandize (third-person singular simple present Normandizes, present participle Normandizing, simple past and past participle Normandized)

1. To make more Norman; to subject to a Norman influence.
   • 1802, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, page 220:

     But a very ingenious author has, with great plausibility, sketched the process by which the Saxon was Normandized.

   • 1897, The Century: 1897 - Volume 54, page 958:

     Thus, in time, fair England was Normandized; William, with dignity, rested and gormandized.

   • 2015, Omar Guerrero-Orozco, Public Administration in Great Britain: History, Institutions, and Ideas:

     Being Normandized was the price England paid for being Europeanized (Haskins, 1915: 82).

Anagrams

• Normanized