Sentence:  This did Thayer in a little over a decade <WSD>Napoleonize</WSD> the Military Academy and move it far to the right of what was intended by its founders, blending in typical knightly style the ideal of formal religious worship and a highly regulated system of physiacl training, as well as a tattletale system of honor. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To (aggrandize).