Hostilize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Hostilize is a verb meaning (archaic) To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
Meaning
(archaic) To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
Example Sentences
Protestants, who, considering the present Government, Catholic and clerical, think themselves obliged to hostilize it and make propaganda against it.
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”.
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 .
Word Forms
- hostilizes
- hostilizing
- hostilized
- hostilise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include enemy, inodiate, alienize, anger, abalienate, antagonize.
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