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Definition of Territorialise

1. Verb. Organize as a territory.

2. Verb. Place on a territorial basis. "The railways were territorialized"

3. Verb. Extend by adding territory.

Definition of Territorialise

1. Verb. (alternative form of territorialize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Territorialise

terrifyingness terrigenous terrine terrines territ territorial territorial division territorial dominion territorial matrices territorial matrix

territorial reserve territorial water territorial waters territorialisation territorialise (current term) territorialism territorialisms territorialist territorialists territorialities

territoriality territorialization territorializations territorialize territorialized territorializes territorializing territorially territorials

Literary usage of Territorialise

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

1. The Trade and Administration of the Chinese Empire by Hosea Ballou Morse, Francis Lister Hawks Pott, A. T. Piry (1908)
"... laws and to extra- territorialise him ; but is it for a moment to be supposed that this was the intention of the negotiators, even on the German side ? ..."

2. The Attaché at Peking (1900)
"Especially is this the case with certain Roman Catholics, who have always endeavoured to "extra-territorialise" their converts, that is, to exact for them ..."

3. Annual Register by Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Edmund Burke (1897)
"In addition to being the first to actually territorialise the Army, Mr. Childers elaborated a scheme devised to avoid the compulsory retirement of officers ..."

4. The Story of Shanghai, from the Opening of the Port to Foreign Trade by J. W. Maclellan (1889)
"It is now proposed to extra-territorialise the Chinese in the Settlement, to tax them for Municipal purposes, ..."

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