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Webster 1913 Edition
Republicanize
Re-pub′lic-an-ize
(-?z)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Republicanized
(-?zd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Republicanizing
(-?ˊz?ng)
.] [Cf. F.
républicaniser
.] To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles;
as, France was
republicanized
; to republicanize
the rising generation. D. Ramsay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Republicanize
REPUB'LICANIZE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
republicanize
republicanize
English
Verb
republicanize (third-person singular simple present republicanizes, present participle republicanizing, simple past and past participle republicanized)
- (transitive) To convert (a state etc.) to republican principles.
- France was republicanized.
- 1809, David Ramsay, The History of South-Carolina
- To republicanize the rising generation, the convention of the people of South-Carolina made it the duty of the constituted authorities to do away this accompaniment of royalty as far as was compatible with liberty.