Meccanize
English
Etymology
Meccan + -ize
Verb
Meccanize (third-person singular simple present Meccanizes, present participle Meccanizing, simple past and past participle Meccanized)
- (rare) To make so it resembles Mecca, Meccans or a qibla
- 1971, Newsweek, Volume 78,
- Nino is Nino Kipiani. a comely Georgian princess, a Christian who prefers telephones and motor cars to her lover's Meccanized society.
- 1996, Larry Reynolds, Race and Other Misadventures, page 322
- The self-undoing of a Meccanized materialism aside, concrete knowledge of the lives of "lower" creatures such as those that Darwin studied should also give pause for thought with respect to the enshrinement
- 2013, Joseph Hankins, Sound, Space and Sociality in Contemporary Japan
- In the tributary movement of their vehicles along these pilgrimage routes, rightists perform a “Meccanized” tour of sacred spaces ...
- 1971, Newsweek, Volume 78,