continentalise

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continentalise (third-person singular simple present continentalises, present participle continentalising, simple past and past participle continentalised)

  1. Alternative form of continentalize
    • 1851, The gold-worshippers: or, The days we live in., page 95:
      I have no doubt Mrs. Sparkleton will continentalise, and, unless you have lost all regard for Lord Fitzhauton, — you had better not drive him to despair.
    • 1883, Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Select Committee on the Channel Tunnel, Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords:
      I know that there are some persons who object to it upon moral grounds ; they say that it will continentalise England ; and introduce practices and opinions which I do not believe anything can introduce.
    • 2009, Simon Reid-Henry, Fidel and Che: The Revolutionary Friendship Between Fidel Castro and Che Guevara:
      By March Che's plans gradually and carefully to continentalise the struggle were also proving unattainable.

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