Normandize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make more Norman; to subject to a Norman influence.

    "But a very ingenious author has, with great plausibility, sketched the process by which the Saxon was Normandized."

  2. 2
    To invade Europe.

    "The Army Chief of Staff [Omar Bradley] lamented the country's great vulnerability. "All we have right now," [David E.] Lilenthal paraphrases Bradley, parenthetically filling in the blanks he had left in his diary for the sake of security, "but all, is (our A-bomb stockpile). Without that we are helpless to aid our friends and must, if they are overrun, try to hold our foes off from home base; never again able to normandize (invade Europe).""

  3. 3
    Alternative form of Normandize. alt-of, alternative

    "Yet, “ normandizing" is not as generally practiced, or as necessary as “percherizing,” for among the large multitude of horses along the sea diast from Nantes to Bordeaux, excellent coach horses are found, such as the horses of St. Gervais, which are natives of the swamps between St. Gervais and Machecaul, resembling the Anglo-Normans in size and structure."

Example

More examples

"But a very ingenious author has, with great plausibility, sketched the process by which the Saxon was Normandized."

Etymology

From Normandy + -ize.

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