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Definition of Colonises
1. colonise [v] - See also: colonise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colonises
Literary usage of Colonises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Popular History of the Discovery of America: From Columbus to Franklin by Johann Georg Kohl (1862)
"Sebastian de Ocampo sails through the two Gates of the Gulf of Mexico (Anno
1508)—Diego Velasquez conquers and colonises Cuba (1511-14)— Francisco Hernandez ..."
2. Maritime Discovery: A History of Nautical Exploration from the Earliest Times by Charles Rathbone Low (1881)
"... colonises Canada—The Discoveries of Spanish Navigators—The Voyage of Juan
Ponce de Leon "on the Coast of Florida, and of Diego Velasquez in Central ..."
3. Russia of To-day: From the German of Baron E. Von Der Brüggen by E[rnst] freiherr von der Brüggen, M. Sandwith (1904)
"How little England colonises successfully by military force is shown to-day in
the Transvaal; but she colonises with incomparable success where, ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1911)
"... I 29 Canary Islands, the Guanches of, I 10; Spain colonises, 40; Spanish fleet
sent to, in 531 ; exports from, v 677; Spanish generals banished to, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"In temperate climates it colonises, and the inferior races die out before it ;
while in tropical regions, unfavourable to its physical development, ..."
6. The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures by John Robert Seeley (1899)
"We may observe also that the modern State almost necessarily colonises in a
different way, because its nature is different from that of the Greek State. ..."
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