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Colonize   /kˈɑlənˌaɪz/   Listen
Colonize

verb
(past & past part. colonized; pres. part. colonizing)
1.
Settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world.  Synonym: colonise.
2.
Settle as colonists or establish a colony (in).  Synonym: colonise.



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"Colonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... We honestly believe the true course to pursue with South Carolina, is to colonize her under the protection of our troops. Let us start with a settlement of Yankees at Beaufort, who shall addict themselves to the raising of cotton and other southern products. Let them employ the negroes whose masters ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the governments existing there, will ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... woman snapped harshly. "I'm getting sick of it! I personally think you should have been locked up—permanently. I think this idea of forced colonization is going to breed trouble for Earth someday, but it is about the only way you can get anybody to colonize this ...
— The Man Who Hated Mars • Gordon Randall Garrett

... There were two in this sector, each controlled to colonize a person. My own group always hoped and believed the other ship might have landed safely. ...
— Inside John Barth • William W. Stuart

... Peloponnesian powers would have planted a colony in Libya. But since the clod had fallen into the sea and would be washed up on the shore of the island of Thera, it was necessary that Euphemos' descendants should first colonize Thera, and then, but not till the seventeenth generation, proceed, under Battos, to found the colony of Kyrene ...
— The Extant Odes of Pindar • Pindar


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