machiavellize

present singular third person machiavellizes · participle present machiavellizing · participle past machiavellized · past machiavellized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Machiavellize.

   All princes, ecclesiastical and secular, machiavellized (80-8 1).

   1992, Nancy S. Struever, Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance, page 212

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   Antonelli has machiavellized the Pontiff, who commenced his career as a Reformer.

   1867, Jacques Abbadie, Chemical change in the eucharist, page 122

   He imitated Guicciardini's objectivity, was influenced by De Thou's fulness of narration, and “machiavellized” all his personages, as Fenelon said long ago.

   1958, James Westfall Thompson, A History of Historical Writing, page 568

   Robert Bolton captured the general view when he explained that ambitious rulers "will not sticke to lie, dissemble, breake their words, forsweare, machiavellize, practice any policy or counterpolicy to honesty, reason, religion.”

   1970, Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany - Issue 92, page 9

present singular third person Machiavellizes · participle present Machiavellizing · participle past Machiavellized · past Machiavellized · alternative machiavellize · alternative Machiavellise · alternative machiavellise

1. To behave in a Machiavellian manner; to be cunning and manipulative.

   The boss has the magic of dividing the workers, he 'Machiavellizes. '

   1983, Geoffrey E. Fox, Organizing the New Immigrants, page 6

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   These were the Machiavellisms that the ancient ages produced for us before Machiavelli was in the world, and an infinity of persons Machiavellize among us today who have never read his books.

   1992, Peter S. Donaldson, Machiavelli and Mystery of State, page 149

   D'Aubigne had to admit that "our kings have learnt to Machiavellize."

   1999, The American Scholar - Volume 68, page 85

2. To make Machiavellian.

   Clearly Nifo, generally condemned for having Aristotelized Machiavelli, was not averse to Machiavellizing Aristotle when appropriate.

   2005, Sydney Anglo, Machiavelli - The First Century, page 55

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   Leninism might be defined as the desperate form of Marxism, an attempt to save Marxism by Machiavellizing it, but Marx's own work is in my view also marked by desperation.

   1987, Eric Bentley, Thinking about the Playwright: Comments from Four Decades

   We must not only claim that violence is ineluctable because the future is open and "being realized," we must also hold that certain types of violence are more justified than others; we must not only agree that the politician never fails to be a Machiavelli, but show as well that history has its ruses, and Machiavellizes the Machiavellis.

   1991, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Phenomenology, page 130