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Webster 1913 Edition
Barbarize
Bar′ba-rize
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Barbarized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Barbarizing
.] 1.
To become barbarous.
The Roman empire was
barbarizing
rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey.
2.
To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
The ill habit . . . of wretched
barbarizing
against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.
Bar′ba-rize
,Verb.
T.
[Cf. F.
barbariser
, LL. barbarizare
.] To make barbarous.
The hideous changes which have
barbarized
France. Burke.
Webster 1828 Edition
Barbarize
B'ARBARIZE
,Verb.
T.
Hideous changes have barbarized France.