peˈripheraˌlize, v.
[f. peripheral a. + -ize.]
trans. To consign to the margin or periphery; to marginalize.
| 1987 Amer. Ethnologist XIV. 646 Within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the late 19th century, Transylvania was doubly peripheralized. 1989 English Today Apr. 6/2 There is a close parallel between how the Scotland/England phenomenon manifests itself in language and what feminists say about how the English language peripheralises women. |