namierise

verb

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Namierize.

   “As the noblest of games, cricket has inspired a whole tribe of pious historians, and their researches enable us to namierise the Hambledon men.”

   “Few books have suffered a greater pulverisation by its critics than 278 , an attempt to namierise the 1700s .”

   “Cowling, a Tory, 'namierised' politics at the accession of George VI.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Namierize.

   “Hence I have always kept trying, with indifferent success, to persuade good historians to Namierise the present: this has been left too much in the hands of sociologists, not well briefed about the intimate details of recent history, and of political pamphleteers (as in the Left Book Club days) to whom we in political science owe much.”

   “The reappraisal of Augustan politics in particular, the reassertion that the post-Revolution era saw a protracted and bitter party struggle over religion, finance, and Britain's role in Europe, not to mention the lingering legacy of a disputed succession, has forestalled any attempt to Namierise the period as a whole, and has heightened the contrast between the volatility of the opening decades and the near-stultification of the mid-century.”

   “My old friend Geoffrey Milburn in the days of his service to Sunderland Poly was inveigled by David Jeremy into one of them, producing a useful paper on Methodist business men in the North-East, which included an equally useful biographical appendix. This attempt to Namierise a regional class of Methodist business-men shows principally two things.”