The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orientalize \O`ri*en"tal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Orientalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Orientalizing.] to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.
Wiktionary
vb. (alternative case form of Orientalize English)
WordNet
v. make oriental in character; "orientalize your garden" [syn: orientalise] [ant: occidentalize, occidentalize]
Usage examples of "orientalize".
When the dogmas about Islam cannot serve, not even for the most Panglossian Orientalist, there is recourse to an Orientalized social-science jargon, to such marketable abstractions as elites, political stability, modernization, and institutional development, all stamped with the cachet of Orientalist wisdom.
We are all trying to do the Alexander-touch – and, as history teaches, that orientalized Alexander and all his generals.