Meaning of Normandize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make more Norman; to subject to a Norman influence.
2. To invade Europe.

Examples

“But a very ingenious author has, with great plausibility, sketched the process by which the Saxon was Normandized.”

“Thus, in time, fair England was Normandized; William, with dignity, rested and gormandized.”

“Being Normandized was the price England paid for being Europeanized (Haskins, 1915: 82).”

“The Army Chief of Staff [Omar Bradley] lamented the country's great vulnerability. "All we have right now," [David E.] Lilenthal paraphrases Bradley, parenthetically filling in the blanks he had left in his diary for the sake of security, "but all, is (our A-bomb stockpile). Without that we are helpless to aid our friends and must, if they are overrun, try to hold our foes off from home base; never again able to normandize (invade Europe)."”

“The United States would never again be able to "normandize," that is, to invade Europe as it had in 1944.”

“Yet, “ normandizing" is not as generally practiced, or as necessary as “percherizing,” for among the large multitude of horses along the sea diast from Nantes to Bordeaux, excellent coach horses are found, such as the horses of St. Gervais, which are natives of the swamps between St. Gervais and Machecaul, resembling the Anglo-Normans in size and structure.”

“The contest between the king: and the people who resisted his normandizing schemes resulted in the convening of a most important National Assembly.”

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