agrarianize

English

Alternative forms

• agrarianise (Commonwealth)

Etymology

From agrarian +‎ -ize.

Verb

agrarianize (third-person singular simple present agrarianizes, present participle agrarianizing, simple past and past participle agrarianized)

1. (transitive) To imbue with the principles of agrarianism.
2. (transitive) To distribute according to the principles of agrarianism.
3. To convert to a more agricultural model.
   • 2013, Katarina Sjoberg, The Return of Ainu, page 122:

     Their living conditions had begun to deteriorate, initially with the administrative attempts to agrarianize their land .The attmpts to transform the Ainu into farmers were, however, not successful.

   • 2014, Neil Gregor, How To Read Hitler:

     Traditionally, Hitler's has been seen as a determinedly atavistic ideology, with his admiration of healthy peasant life and his dislike of urban culture reflecting a desire to 're-agrarianize' Germany, to turn back the clock and put the industrial revolution into reverse, recreating Germany as a pre-industrial idyll.

   • 2017, Anselm L. Strauss, Images of the American City:

     Man "has been industrialized to the limit. Now agrarianize him. Somewhat."