v. [f. WESTERN a. + -IZE.] trans. To make western in character; esp. to make (an Eastern country or race) more Western in regard to its institutions, ideas, etc.
1842. Tait’s Mag., IX. 617. She herself pleads to having become so Westernized, as no longer to be a competent painter of Western peculiarities.
1848. Eerie Laird, 247. A remnant of it [sc. the palace], rather clumsily, Westernized, is now the official habitation of the British resident at Delhi.
1888. Sat. Rev., 22 Sept., 340/1. Bulgaria is being … more and more Westernized.
Hence Westernized ppl. a.; Westernizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; also Westernization.
1893. Sketch, 1 Feb., 38/2. The westernising of India is … shown in the most curious ways.
1900. Speaker, 9 June, 284/2. The Young, Turkish or Westernizing party.
1903. Fairbairn, in Camb. Mod. Hist., II. xix. 701. He regarded Aristotle as a westernised Mohammadan rather than as a Greek.
1904. Daily Chron., 19 Feb., 3/3. The process that is generally called the Westernisation of Japan.
