orientalize

Etymology

From Oriental + -ize.

orientalize means to make Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

To make Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.“But had Persia triumphed on sea and land, and held its conquest in the fifth century, Greece had been orientalized.”