bigotize

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From bigot + -ize.

Verb

bigotize (third-person singular simple present bigotizes, present participle bigotizing, simple past and past participle bigotized)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To be a bigot; act a bigot.
    • 1851, Martin Farquhar Tupper, The Complete Works of Martin F. Tupper, page 169:
      Require not, however shrewd your guess, my acknowledgment of this brain-child; forgive all unintended harms; supply what is lacking in my charities; politically, socially, authorially, think that I bigotize in theoretic fun, but am incarnate Tolerance for practical earnest.
    • 2007, Doug "Ten" Rose, Fearless Puppy on American Road, page 402:
      Do you think it gives you power
      When you say things you'll regret
      When you bigotize on someone's thighs
      That's just what you won't get!
  2. (transitive, rare) To make a bigot out of.
    • 1911, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research:
      Outside of this limitation the term has no use but to confuse the public and to exult and bigotise the sceptic.
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