hostilizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

hostile +‎ -ize

別の表記

• hostilise

動詞

hostilize (三人称単数 現在形 hostilizes, 現在分詞 hostilizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 hostilized)

1. (obsolete) To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
   • 1794, Anna Seward, Letters of Anna Seward Letter 96, to Reverend T. S. Whalley.

     When England, Spain, Holland, and Russia united with the powers already hostilized against an impious nation, that had reduced robbery, murder, and profaneness to a cool and practical system, I thought there was the fairest prospect of their success .

   • March 4, 1815, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis C. Grey, Esq.

     if they go on checking, irritating, injuring and hostilizing us, they will force on us the motto “Carthago delenda est”.

   • 1903, United States Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States page 298

     Protestants, who, considering the present Government, Catholic and clerical, think themselves obliged to hostilize it and make propaganda against it.

参照

• hostilize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913