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Definition of Mongrelize
1. Verb. Cause to become a mongrel. "Mongrelized dogs"
Definition of Mongrelize
1. v. t. & i. To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.
Definition of Mongrelize
1. Verb. To breed a mongrel ¹
2. Verb. To cross-breed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mongrelize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mongrelize
Literary usage of Mongrelize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marianne Moore: Vision Into Verse by Patricia C. Willis (1987)
"... Giorgione! there are those who mongrelize and those who heighten anything they
touch; although it may well be that if Giorgione's self-portrait were not ..."
2. Race Or Mongrel: a Brief History of the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Races by Alfred Paul Karl Eduard Schultz (1908)
"It tends to mongrelize the United States, both by directing the course of
immigration to the United States, and by forcing the United States to take control ..."
3. The States of the River Plate: Their Industries and Commerce. Sheep-farming by Wilfrid Latham (1866)
"Having an established variety, however inferior many of its characteristics may
be in degree, we must be particularly careful not to mongrelize it; ..."
4. Empire and Armament: The Evolution of American Imperialism and the Problem by Jennings Cropper Wise (1915)
"And there are others who assert that it tends to mongrelize, and to depress wages
in the United States by directing the course of immigration to North ..."
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