v. [a. F. coalise-r, f. coalition, after analogy of some words in -iser.] To enter into, or form, a coalition. Hence Coalised ppl. a. [= F. coalisé], Coaliser. (Chiefly in reference to the coalition of European Powers against the first French Republic.)
1794. Ld. Sheffield, in Ld. Auckland’s Corr. (1862), III. 224. I called on all my old friends, the new coalisers, but did not see one of them.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. II. ii. Europe seems coalising itself again. Ibid., III. II. viii. The coalised Kings threaten us; we hurl at their feet, as gage of battle, the Head of a King.
1837. Thackeray, Carlyle’s Fr Rev. Coalized Kings made war upon France.
1859. Sat. Rev., VII. 118/1. The coalized monarchs.
