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Definition of Colonising
1. colonise [v] - See also: colonise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colonising
Literary usage of Colonising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Unchanging East by Robert Barr (1900)
"French colonising — The Tunis Arabs — An African Music- hall — A Notable Guide
and His Sterling Qualities— Delights of Shopping in Tunis — Carthage a ..."
2. The Age of Elizabeth by Mandell Creighton (1881)
"When the first fear of Spain had passed away, these expeditions colonising took
too exclusively the character of free- expeditions, booting, and lost their ..."
3. ... The Age of Elizabeth by Mandell Creighton (1904)
"When the first fear of Spain had passed away, these expeditions colonising took
too exclusively the character of free- expeditions, booting, and lost their ..."
4. The Literary Character: Or, the History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their by Isaac Disraeli (1868)
"OF colonising. JAMES I. had a project of improving the state of those that dwelt
in the isles, " who are so utterly barbarous," by intermixing some of the ..."
5. Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903, a Biography by Caroline Augusta Lloyd (1912)
"... and organised a capitalistic business which still exists. So strong was the
colonising enthusiasm that action on a national scale ..."
6. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. In Two by William Kennedy (1841)
"Intended Spanish Colony in Texas—Moses Austin—his origin, character, and
pursuits—Spanish system of granting waste lands —Austin's project of colonising ..."
7. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1880)
"The sixth century brought in both an additional Gaelic colonising and a Teutonic
element into the population of this part of ^^^ an<j ..."
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