Meaning of Martianize | Babel Free

Definitions

To make Martian; to endow with Martian characteristics.

transitive

Examples

“1906, Walter Lorenzo Sheldon, Letter to Anna Hartshorne Sheldon dated 6 June, 1906 in Summer Greetings from Japan, self-published c. 1908, p. 23, By noon I had made up my mind⟳ that, so far as the mass of the people are concerned, this country is still Japan. It may be Martianized (for ought I know⟳), but it is not Europeanized by any manner of means.”

“And when they have⟳ got the world Martianized, when they’ve started a race⟳ here with minds like⟳ their own⟳ and yet with bodies fit for earth, when they have⟳ practically interbred with us and ousted our strain⟳, then they’ll begin⟳ to send⟳ along their treasures, their apparatus—grafting their life on ours.”

“The buildings look⟳ as much out of place⟳ as if they had come⟳ from Mars—big isolated boxes brought dangling from Martian helicopters like⟳ Christ dangling incongruous across the first shots of La Dolce Vita. […] The Civic Center was one of the first things to “renew”—i.e., Martianize—Baltimore.”

“Looking at this piece [Red Virginia Creeper], I am reminded of Oliver Sacks’s lovely title for one of his collections, An Anthropologist on Mars; Munch manages to “martianize” our old familiar world, not via some “shock⟳ of recognition,” but rather as the result⟳ of a canny recombinant strategy, a hypnotic fusing of disparate pieces together, so that the whole is not merely greater than the sum of its part[s], it is a quantum leap⟳ beyond its parts altogether.”

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