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hostilize

verb

Etymology

From hostile + -ize.

  1. derived from hostīlis
  2. borrowed from hostile
  3. suffixed as hostilize — “hostile + ize”

Definitions

  1. To make hostile

    To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.

    • March 4, 1815, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis C. Grey, Esq. if they go on checking, irritating, injuring and hostilizing us, they will force on us the motto “Carthago delenda est”.
    • Protestants, who, considering the present Government, Catholic and clerical, think themselves obliged to hostilize it and make propaganda against it.

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