continentalizing

Verb

continentalize (third-person singular simple present continentalizes, present participle continentalizing, simple past and past participle continentalized)

1. To broaden or narrow in scope or focus so that the domain becomes the continent.
   • He who would continentalize our education would continentalize our history. I do not think that we shall be continentalized; I think that the movement has failed.1900, American Education - Volume 3, page 205
2. To spread throughout the continent.
   • Such seawater-displacing ice sheets would contibute to a global O enrichment in the oceans and would further continentalize the climates of northern Europe, Asia, and North America but would not contribute significantly to reducing eustatic sea level.1985, TER-QUA Symposium Series - Volume 1, page 98
3. To make or become more culturally European.
   • A continentalized Scotchman is a character with whom every one who has resided on the Continent is familiar; a continentalized Englishman, if not an unknown, is a very unusual phenomenon.1860, The North British Review - Volume 33, page 73
4. To visit Europe.
   • So far, therefore, as economy goes, this continentalizing has not succeeded up to this. Instead of living rent free at Dodsborough, with our own mutton and turnips, the ducks and peas, that cost us, I may say, nothing, here we are, keeping up the price of foreign markets, and feeding the foreigners...1882, Charles James Lever, The Dodd family abroad. The confessions of Con Cregan, page 32
5. To make into a continent.
   • The river forms an island here which the ice now continentalizes.1865, Sir William Howard Russell, Canada : Its Defences, Condition, and Resources, page 63