English edit

Verb edit

Polonized

  1. simple past and past participle of Polonize

Adjective edit

Polonized (comparative more Polonized, superlative most Polonized)

  1. Made Polish. [from 19th c.]
    • 1886, Alfred Rambaud, The History of Russia from the Earliest Times to 1877:
      The orthodox clergy everywhere preached a crusade against the Jesuits and Uniates, and everywhere the peasants rose against the Polish or Polonized pans.
    • 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 96:
      Germans arriving in rural parts of Prussia and Poland became Polonized, and though they predominated in the towns, this was not invariably the case and by the sixteenth century, German was no longer understood in Cracow.