Meccanize

present singular third person Meccanizes · participle present Meccanizing · participle past Meccanized · past Meccanized

1. rareTo make so it resembles Mecca, Meccans or a qibla

   Nino is Nino Kipiani. a comely Georgian princess, a Christian who prefers telephones and motor cars to her lover's Meccanized society.

   1971, Newsweek, volume 78

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   The self-undoing of a Meccanized materialism aside, concrete knowledge of the lives of "lower" creatures such as those that Darwin studied should also give pause for thought with respect to the enshrinement

   1996, Larry Reynolds, Race and Other Misadventures, page 322

   In the tributary movement of their vehicles along these pilgrimage routes, rightists perform a “Meccanized” tour of sacred spaces ...

   2013, Joseph Hankins, Sound, Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan