continentalize verb5 •To broaden or narrow in scope or focus so that the domain becomes the continent.He who would continentalize our education would continentalize our history. I do not think that we shall be continentalized; I think that the movement has failed. — 1900 •To spread throughout the continent. •To make or become more culturally European.A continentalized Scotchman is a character with whom every one who has resided on the Continent is familiar; a continentalized Englishman, if not an unknown, is a very unusual phenomenon. — 1860 •To make into a continent.The river forms an island here which the ice now continentalizes. — 1865 •To visit Europe. formscontinentalized · continentalizing · continentalizes