propagandize, v.
(prɒpəˈgændaɪz)
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
a. trans. To disseminate (principles) by organized effort; to subject to a propaganda. Also, to subject (a person) to propaganda; to encourage to a belief thus.
| 1844 Fraser's Mag. XXIX. 333 We did not fight to propagandise monarchical principles. 1878 Ibid. XVIII. 51 They..came..to propagandise their political and literary notions. 1892 Echo 4 Feb. 2/3 All the..places..where voters can be reached, will be visited and propagandised. 1928 Observer 11 Mar. 13/4 A crowd of the peasants..tries to ‘propagandize’ an American soldier. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Oct. 12/1 Those who have only money enough..should not be propagandized into spending beyond their means. 1938 Daily Tel. 7 Jan. 12/4 They had too much common-sense to be propagandized. 1969 Wall St. Jrnl. 14 Feb. 1/6 South Korea..propagandizes its citizens heavily. 1974 tr. Sniečkus's Soviet Lithuania 31 The Party..propagandised Marxist-Leninist theory and intensified the ideological training of its members. |
b. intr. To carry on a propaganda. Also, to disseminate propaganda.
| 1889 Voice (N.Y.) 1 Aug., Unselfish, disinterested citizens, propagandizing for the sake of principle. 1967 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. XXXII. 7/2 Being honest, I always have to mention when I am propagandizing against cigarettes—that 80% of heavy cigarette smokers do not die of lung cancer. 1974 K. Millett Flying iii. x. 335, I propagandize and make coffee. 1977 New Yorker 6 June 137/1 He propagandized for wilderness preservation as well as urban amenity. |
Hence propaˈgandizing ppl. a. and vbl. n.
| 1855 J. D. Howard in N. Amer. Rev. LXXX. 5 The early conquests of the Saracens, then, are to be ascribed..to the propagandizing spirit of their new faith. 1860 Even. Jrnl. Tract No. 13. 2 What class of men north and south did Mr. Fillmore represent? The old Whig or Clay party south who had no sympathies with the slave propagandising element of the Democratic party. 1927 S. Bent Ballyhoo iii. 87 The propagandizing of screened officials. 1978 N.Y. Times 30 Mar. b2/1 Here is a perfectly legal industry..based on the commercial exploitation and propagandizing of something that is illegal. 1979 Country Life 8 Nov. 1687/4 ‘Folk song’ is a silly, sentimental, misleading and propagandising concept. |