Orientalize

American  

[awr-ee-en-tl-ahyz, ohr-] / ˌɔr iˈɛn tlˌaɪz, ˌoʊr- /

especially British, Orientalise

verb (used with or without object)

(often lowercase)

Orientalized, Orientalizing

1. to make or become Asian, especially East Asian.

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Orientalize British  

/ ˌɔːrɪˈɛntəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make, become, or treat as Oriental

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Other Word Forms

• Orientalization
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Orientalize

First recorded in 1815–25; oriental + -ize

Example Sentences

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Orientalize Orientalized Orientalizing

And sudden international interest in Turkish art, many suggest, can tempt artists to Orientalize themselves, to make their art explicitly “Turkish” from a Western perspective, in response to the needs of the market.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2012

Rama's efforts to Orientalize Europe's recent social and intellectual history are puzzling.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a determined purpose to Orientalize his empire.

From A Short History of Russia by Parmele, Mary Platt

This marvelous exhibition fills two upstairs galleries named for Evelyn and Maurice Sharp at Olana, the Orientalized dream house Church built in Hudson in the 1870s.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2013

Although they never attempted to Tatarize Russia, 250 years of occupation could not fail to leave indelible traces upon a civilization which was even more than before Orientalized.

From A Short History of Russia by Parmele, Mary Platt

Our Westernized church systems and our closely mortised logical theologies are sometimes a bit bewildering, not exactly comprehensible to their Orientalized mode of thought.

From Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)

These pale-green bayberry tallow candles, when lighted in the early winter evening, sent forth a faint spicy fragrance--a true New England incense--that fairly perfumed and Orientalized the atmosphere of the parsonage kitchen.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

In an unpublished article, McLuhan sees Viet Nam as a "resonant interval" or a "massive interface between a Westernizing Orient and an Orientalizing West."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was introduced by Constantine as part of the Orientalizing of the empire begun by Diocletian.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

Troy, an Orientalizing Hellenic city in Asia, seizes and keeps Greek Helen, who is of Europe; it tears her away from home and country, and through its deed destroys Family and State.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques