Lexic.us

Definition of Occidentalise

1. Verb. Make western in character. "The country was Westernized after it opened up"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Occidentalise

Literary usage of Occidentalise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the General Council by General Council (1892)
"In contact with certain conditions, to occidentalise is inevitable. When civilisation meets naked barbarism imitation is necessary and only decent. ..."

2. Studies in Judaism by Solomon Schechter (1908)
"... itself and to ape the Occident in all things except its admiration for Israel. It has become for it almost a sacred duty to occidentalise its religion. ..."

3. Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1901)
"... aspirations and small vexations, which reminds us of the attempts of Peter the Great to occidentalise Russia : as in the opposition of the old Muscovite ..."

4. Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1877)
"... of high aspirations and small vexations, which reminds us of the attempts of Peter the Great to occidentalise Russia; as in the opposition of the old ..."

5. The Ascent Through Christ: A Study of the Doctrine of Redemption in the by Ebenezer Griffith-Jones (1900)
"... hardest and most painful task of the student of to-day is to occidentalise and modernise the Asiatic modes of thought which have come down to us closely ..."

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