Hispaniolize

English

Alternative forms

Hispaniolise

Verb

Hispaniolize (third-person singular simple present Hispaniolizes, present participle Hispaniolizing, simple past and past participle Hispaniolized)

1. Synonym of Spaniolize
   • 1876, Robert Southey, John Wood Warter, Southey's Common-place Book, page 325:

     The Spanish ought to have the seat of their Italian government at Genoa, and to Hispaniolize the higher classes by education.

   • 1897, The Art Journal - Volume 59, page 243:

     There, however, he has naturally done all he can to Hispaniolize his pronounced African type.

   • 1967, Louis L. Snyder, The Making of Modern Man, page 127:

     Spanish Christians demanded that Philip "Hispaniolize the Moriscos."