japonise

present singular third person japonises · participle present japonising · participle past japonised · past japonised

1. alternativeAlternative form of Japanize.

   But Japanese political predominance, and constant intercourse during three centuries, have almost japonised the island.

   1895, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, page 5

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   Not methods alone are borrowed wholesale, but even plots, the proper names which occur in the stories being slightly japonised, as Shimizu for Smith, Risa for Eliza, and details being altered so as to suit Japanese social conditions.

   1927, B.H. Chamberlain, Things Japanese, page 274

   But japonise it into Benkei and the difficulty vanishes, to say nothing of the apparent prop given to the story of Yoshitsune's visit to Yezo, by the fact of the name of his celebrated henchman Benkei thus figuring in the geography of the island.

   1996, Kirsten Refsing, Early European Writings on the Ainu Language

present singular third person Japonises · participle present Japonising · participle past Japonised · past Japonised

1. alternativeAlternative form of Japanize.

   It can destroy or it can build up Character, it can Americanise, Japonise, Germanise, the world.

   1969, Kenneth Macpherson, Close Up - Volume 1, page 53

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   She must either "Japonise" her modernism more thoroughly, or else understand all the associations that are linked, in the Occident, to certain objects. But what on earth is the use of Christmas in Japan?

   1928, Sherard Vines, Humours unreconciled: a tale of modern Japan, page 200

   Not only so:—they wish to Japonise Christianity itself, in essence as well as in outward form, and seem inclined to throw over-board even that minimum of dogma on which the Protestant missionaries feel bound to insist

   2007, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese