Machiavellise

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Verb

Machiavellise (third-person singular simple present Machiavellises, present participle Machiavellising, simple past and past participle Machiavellised)

  1. Alternative form of Machiavellize
    • 1848, Jacopo Leone, The Jesuit conspiracy, page 82:
      Can it not re-erect itself, conquer, destroy, rebuild, and so Machiavellise itself, that the world can by no means escape it?
    • 1850, The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine)., page 417:
      Can it not re-erect itself, conquer, destroy, rebuild, and so Machiavellise itself, that the world can by no means escape it?"
    • 2013, Martin Bygate, Peter Skehan, Merrill Swain, Researching Pedagogic Tasks, page 6:
      For example, a (self-contained) task may be chosen to Machiavellise the use of a particular structure – cf. Loschky and Bley-Vroman's (1993) necessary condition for a structure-task pairing.