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Napoleonise

Napoleonise is the alternative spelling of Napoleonize.

Meaning of Napoleonize

Verb

Napoleonize (third-person singular simple present Napoleonizes, present participle Napoleonizing, simple past and past participle Napoleonized)

  1. (transitive) To rule completely.
  2. (transitive) To aggrandize.
    • This did Thayer in a little over a decade Napoleonize the Military Academy and move it far to the right of what was intended by its founders, blending in typical knightly style the ideal of formal religious worship and a highly regulated system of physiacl training, as well as a tattletale system...2004, Robert J. Higgs, God in the Stadium: Sports and Religion in America, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 80

Forms of Napoleonise

third-person singular presentNapoleonises
present participleNapoleonising
past participleNapoleonised
pastNapoleonised

Questions about Napoleonise

What is Napoleonise the alternative spelling of?
Napoleonise is the alternative spelling of Napoleonize.

Words near Napoleonise in the dictionary

  1. Napoleonian
  2. Napoleoniana
  3. Napoleonic
  4. Napoleonic Wars
  5. Napoleonically
  6. Napoleonise
  7. Napoleonised
  8. Napoleonises
  9. Napoleonising
  10. Napoleonisings
  11. Napoleonism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Napoleonise (page history and authors); Napoleonize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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