continentalize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To broaden or narrow in scope or focus so that the domain becomes the continent.

   • He who would continentalize our education would continentalize our history. I do not think that we shall be continentalized; I think that the movement has failed.
   • Used in connection with Christianity, as in the title of a well-known book, Pan-Americanism in Its Religious Aspect, it provincializes, or at best, continentalizes what is by nature universal.
   • In defense of the treaties, it may be stated that they will continentalize the Monroe doctrine, that in a case like that cited above, all the Americas will unite to drive out the intruder.
2. 2

   To spread throughout the continent.

   • On the other hand, during summer the air circulation is intensified by the activity of the Azoric anticyclone which brings to our country important quantities of humid air which, however, continentalizes gradually towards east.
3. 3

   To make or become more culturally European.

   • A continentalized Scotchman is a character with whom every one who has resided on the Continent is familiar; a continentalized Englishman, if not an unknown, is a very unusual phenomenon.
   • The one main reason why many are so much opposed to the Sunday opening of Museums is that it may be the getting in of the thin end of the wedge to continentalize our Sunday.
   • These words can be pronounced either hard or soft , i . e . , we may yet anglicize them or continentalize them .
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   1. 4

      To visit Europe.

   2. 5

      To make into a continent.

      • The river forms an island here which the ice now continentalizes.

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