To make something or someone Hanoverian in character or to place under Hanoverian control or influence.
A variant form of 'Hanoverianize,' using a shortened base 'Hanover' plus the -ize suffix. Both forms appear in 18th and 19th-century historical texts with the same meaning.
The existence of both 'hanoverize' and 'hanoverianize' shows how language adapts—speakers preferred the shorter version in everyday historical writing, just like how we shorten 'utilize' from 'utilizate'!
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