Meccanize

English

Etymology

Meccan +‎ -ize

Verb

Meccanize (third-person singular simple present Meccanizes, present participle Meccanizing, simple past and past participle Meccanized)

1. (rare) To make so it resembles Mecca, Meccans or a qibla
   • 1971, Newsweek, volume 78:

     Nino is Nino Kipiani. a comely Georgian princess, a Christian who prefers telephones and motor cars to her lover's Meccanized society.

   • 1996, Larry Reynolds, Race and Other Misadventures, page 322

     The self-undoing of a Meccanized materialism aside, concrete knowledge of the lives of "lower" creatures such as those that Darwin studied should also give pause for thought with respect to the enshrinement

   • 2013, Joseph Hankins, Sound, Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan:

     In the tributary movement of their vehicles along these pilgrimage routes, rightists perform a “Meccanized” tour of sacred spaces ...