▪ I. propagand, n.
(prɒpəˈgænd)
Also -ande.
[ad. F. propagande: see propaganda n.]
= propaganda n.
| 1795 W. Cobbett Bone to gnaw for Democrats 13 Citizen David, painter to the Propagande, has represented Liberty under the form of a Dragon. 1801 Hel. M. Williams Sk. Fr. Rep. I. xi. 115 To..form a propagande of the rights of man. 1806 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled (ed. 3) I. 75 Vile propagands in every city Make smooth the path of French banditti. 1830 Examiner 629/1 Europe recollected the past, and asked whether no revolutionary propagand would arise amongst them. 1879 M. Pattison Milton iv. 47 A grand scheme for the union of Protestant Christendom, and his propagand of Comenius's school-reform. |
▪ II. propagand, v.
(prɒpəˈgænd)
[Back-formation from propaganda.]
trans. and intr. = propagandize v.
| 1901 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 2/2 Being free to ‘propagand’ he has not hesitated to do so. 1923 Ibid. 16 May 8/1 Russia was spending large sums out of her Secret Service in order to propagand in the East against British interests. 1935 N. Mitchison We have been Warned ii. 208, I expect he'll propagand me a lot. 1938 E. Hemingway Fifth Column (1939) 171 That typical French ivresse that you were propaganded to believe did not exist. 1948 W. Fortescue Beauty for Ashes xii. 77 Would I consent to be a voluntary speaker and ‘propagand’ on platforms? |
Hence propaˈganded ppl. a.; propaˈganding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1920 R. Frost Let. 19 Sept. (1972) 94 Good luck with the propaganding. 1937 F. P. Crozier Men I Killed xii. 268 They discuss it in awed whispers, well away from the propaganding microphones of the B.B.C. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Oct. 604/2 Faulty reasoning..and unfelicities like ‘propaganding’ are a few of the obstacles it [sc. a book] presents. 1968 Economist 31 Aug. 45/1 The fear-bound and self-propaganded Kremlin leaders. 1971 F. R. Leavis in Human World Aug. 9 To see it [sc. the present government] replaced by one that has an alternative party-backing, representing a proclaimed and propaganded different policy and programme. |