namierise

English

Verb

namierise (third-person singular simple present namierises, present participle namierising, simple past and past participle namierised)

1. Alternative form of Namierize
   • 1962, Political Science - Volumes 14-15, pages 21–22:

     As the noblest of games, cricket has inspired a whole tribe of pious historians, and their researches enable us to namierise the Hambledon men.

   • 1980, John Stephen Morrill, John Wroughton, Seventeenth Century Britain, 1603-1714, page 52:

     Few books have suffered a greater pulverisation by its critics than 278 , an attempt to namierise the 1700s .

   • 2002, Richard J. B. Bosworth, Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima, page 208:

     Cowling, a Tory, 'namierised' politics at the accession of George VI.

Anagrams

• eimerians, semainier