Tylerizing

Verb

Tylerize (third-person singular simple present Tylerizes, present participle Tylerizing, simple past and past participle Tylerized)

1. (ambitransitive) To abandon the political party to which political office is owed, as United States President John Tyler did during his term of office (1841-45), to defect to another party or political position while in office, to commit political apostasy.
   • Seward was not trusted by Greeley, Phillips, Lovejoy, and the radicals of their complexion. They apprehended that after using the "American citizens of African descent," until he (Seward) should be safely seated in the Presidential chair, he would abandon the negro and "Tylerize" their Party...1864, Thomas Jefferson Miles, To All Whom It May Concern