machiavellize

English

Verb

machiavellize (third-person singular simple present machiavellizes, present participle machiavellizing, simple past and past participle machiavellized)

1. Alternative form of Machiavellize
   • 1867, Jacques Abbadie, Chemical change in the eucharist, page 122:

     Antonelli has machiavellized the Pontiff, who commenced his career as a Reformer.

   • 1958, James Westfall Thompson, A History of Historical Writing, page 568:

     He imitated Guicciardini's objectivity, was influenced by De Thou's fulness of narration, and “machiavellized” all his personages, as Fenelon said long ago.

   • 1970, Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany - Issue 92, page 9:

     Robert Bolton captured the general view when he explained that ambitious rulers "will not sticke to lie, dissemble, breake their words, forsweare, machiavellize, practice any policy or counterpolicy to honesty, reason, religion.”

   • 1992, Nancy S. Struever, Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance, page 212:

     All princes, ecclesiastical and secular, machiavellized (80-8 1).