Machiavellise

English

Verb

Machiavellise (third-person singular simple present Machiavellises, present participle Machiavellising, simple past and past participle Machiavellised)

1. Alternative form of Machiavellize
   • 1848, Jacopo Leone, The Jesuit conspiracy, page 82:

     Can it not re-erect itself, conquer, destroy, rebuild, and so Machiavellise itself, that the world can by no means escape it?

   • 1850, The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine)., page 417:

     Can it not re-erect itself, conquer, destroy, rebuild, and so Machiavellise itself, that the world can by no means escape it?"

   • 2013, Martin Bygate, Peter Skehan, Merrill Swain, Researching Pedagogic Tasks, page 6:

     For example, a (self-contained) task may be chosen to Machiavellise the use of a particular structure – cf. Loschky and Bley-Vroman's (1993) necessary condition for a structure-task pairing.