Definition of Orientalise

1. Verb. Make oriental in character. "Orientalize your garden"

Exact synonyms: Orientalize
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Antonyms: Occidentalise, Occidentalize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orientalise

oriental bittersweet
oriental bush cherry
oriental cherry
oriental cholangio-hepatitis
oriental cockroach
oriental food
oriental person
oriental plane
oriental poppy
oriental roach
oriental spruce
oriental sweetgum
oriental turtle dove
oriental turtle doves
orientalia
orientalise (current term)
orientalism
orientalisms
orientalist
orientalists
orientality
orientalize
orientalized
orientalizes
orientalizing
orientally
orientals
orientanol
orientate
orientated

Literary usage of Orientalise

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

1. Political, Social & Literary Papers by Umá Śankar Miśra (1890)
"As to the attempt to orientalise an university, it may be said that we do not look to the universities for Oriental studies, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"... he took up the biography of Bria: Houghton Hodgson, the veteran orientalise who had first aroused his interest in the race and languages of India. ..."

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