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Republicanize

Republicanize \Re*pub"lic*an*ize\ (-?z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Republicanized (-?zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Republicanizing (-?`z?ng).] [Cf. F. r['e]publicaniser.] To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation.
--D. Ramsay.

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republicanize

vb. (context transitive English) To convert (a state etc.) to republican principles.

Usage examples of "republicanize".

The struggle to republicanize the French Army had produced an unfortunate proportion, from the British point of view, of officers who were not “gentlemen.