v. [-IZE.]
1. trans. To make like London or its inhabitants.
1778. Miss Burney, Evelina, x. (1791), I. 19. Her chief objection was to our dress, for we have had no time to Londonize ourselves.
1806. Jeffrey, Lett., in Cockburn, Life, II. lii. You try to persuade yourself that you are Londonised.
1893. J. E. Ritchie, East Anglia, 75. The new town has spread to Kirkley, has Londonized even quiet Pakefield.
2. intr. To visit or frequent London. nonce-use.
1827. Lamb, Lett. (1888), II. 75. (To Bernard Barton), Do you never Londonise again?… Do your Drummonds allow no holidays?
Hence Londonized ppl. a.; Londonization, the action or process of Londonizing.
1832. Lytton, Eugene A., II. v. In our remoter roads and less Londonised districts.
1888. Blackie, Sp., in Scot. Leader, 19 Sept., 5. He did not believe in centralisation, or the Londonisation of Scotland.
1891. G. Meredith, One of our Conq., III. xiii. 266. Enjoying the Londonized odour of the cab.
