Definition of Polonize

1. Verb. To make Polish, as to custom, culture, language, or style of the Republic of Poland. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Polonize

1. to make Polish [v POLONIZED, POLONIZING, POLONIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polonize

poloist
poloists
polonaise
polonaises
polonie
polonies
poloniferous
polonise
polonised
polonises
polonism
polonisms
polonium
polonium-210
poloniums
polonize (current term)
polonized
polonizes
polony
polos
poloxalene
poloxalkol
poloxamer
poloxamine
poloxamines
polpettine
polron
polrons
pols
polster

Literary usage of Polonize

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... governmental measure it is regarded by many as an effort to detach the Ruthenians from the rest of the Russian race and in a measure to polonize them. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... measure and partly because it is regarded as an effort to detach the Ruthenians from the rest of the Russian race and in a measure to polonize them. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... measure to polonize them. The phonetic system of writing has never been adopted among the Hungarian Ruthenians, and it is only within the last two or ..."

4. Treaty of Peace with Germany by Germany (1918- ), Germany (1918- ) Treaties, etc. 1918-, Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920), United States Congress Senate, Germany, etc. 1918 Treaties, June 28 Treaty with Germany, 1919 (1919)
"... Russian Tsars made all efforts to Russify them: in Galicia, they were delivered under the domination of the Austrian Poles, who tried to polonize them. ..."

5. Treaty of Peace with Germany by Germany (1918- ), Germany (1918- ) Treaties, etc. 1918-, Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920), United States Congress Senate, Germany, etc. 1918 Treaties, June 28 Treaty with Germany, 1919 (1919)
"... Russian Tsars made all efforts to Russify them: in Galicia, they were delivered under the domination of the Austrian Poles, who tried to polonize them. ..."

6. A Short History of Germany by Ernest Flagg Henderson (1916)
"During the Kulturkampf at least, members of the Catholic clergy in Posen and West Prussia tried to polonize German children and thus win them for the church ..."

7. The Fortnightly Review (1880)
"... officials are Poles; and, in regard to higher education and some other matters, they are allowed to localise and polonize more than the other provinces. ..."

8. A Brief History of Poland by Julia Swift Orvis (1916)
"... the Ukrainians in the Russian Ukraine as the Poles have to polonize them in Galicia. But in spite of all these efforts the Ukrainian national movement ..."

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