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mediatize

American  
[mee-dee-uh-tahyz] / ˈmi di əˌtaɪz /
especially British, mediatise

verb (used with object)

mediatized, mediatizing
  1. to annex (a principality) to another state, while allowing certain rights to its former sovereign.


mediatize British  
/ ˈmiːdɪəˌtaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to annex (a state) to another state, allowing the former ruler to retain his title and some authority

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of mediatize

1820–30; mediate + -ize, modeled on German mediatisieren

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It will be necessary to mediatize a large number of them.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

How often in the weary years that were to follow I wished that some one would materially mediatize the task which fell to my lot!

From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Worcester, Dean C.

Above all, commentators from the wider Arab world were quick to connect Bushnell’s death to the highly mediatized public self-burning of Mohamed Bouazizi.

From Salon May 4, 2024

The pandemic has had a devastating impact on numerous fashion houses, forcing the cancellation of big budget, highly mediatized collections over government restrictions in favor of digital videos showcasing new designs.

From Seattle Times Jan. 19, 2022

The on dit is that metropolitan hotels are now the favored working, socializing and culture-consuming loci of the mediatized professional.

From New York Times Nov. 25, 2011

Now comes the publication of an improbably titled “Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography,” a portrait of the anti-secrecy group’s heavily mediatized founder that has been disowned by its subject.

From New York Times Sep. 22, 2011

At the age of fifteen, when he was brought to Vienna, he was established in the Silesian duchy of Teschen, which had been mediatized and granted to his father by the emperor in 1722.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various

Certainly they too are so strongly opposed to the infallibilist dogma because it involves the mediatizing of all kings and governments.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

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