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Meccanize

Meccanize verb: to make so it resembles Mecca, Meccans or a qibla.

Verb

Meccanize (third-person singular simple present Meccanizes, present participle Meccanizing, simple past and past participle Meccanized)

  1. (rare) To make so it resembles Mecca, Meccans or a qibla
    • Nino is Nino Kipiani. a comely Georgian princess, a Christian who prefers telephones and motor cars to her lover's Meccanized society.1971, Newsweek, volume 78
    • The self-undoing of a Meccanized materialism aside, concrete knowledge of the lives of "lower" creatures such as those that Darwin studied should also give pause for thought with respect to the enshrinement1996, Larry Reynolds, Race and Other Misadventures, page 322

Forms of Meccanize

third-person singular presentMeccanizes
present participleMeccanizing
past participleMeccanized
pastMeccanized

Origin of Meccanize

From Meccan + -ize.

Questions about Meccanize

What does Meccanize mean?
Meccanize means to make so it resembles Mecca, Meccans or a qibla.
What part of speech is Meccanize?
Meccanize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Meccanize?
The past tense of Meccanize is Meccanized.

Words near Meccanize in the dictionary

  1. Meccah
  2. Meccan
  3. Meccanite
  4. Meccanites
  5. meccanization
  6. Meccanize
  7. Meccanized
  8. Meccanizes
  9. Meccanizing
  10. Meccano
  11. meccano-like

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