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Webster 1913 Edition

Humanize

Hu′man-ize

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Humanized
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Humanizing
.]
[Cf. F.
humaniser
.]
1.
To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
[Also spelled
humanise
.]
Was it the business of magic to
humanize
our natures with compassion?
Addison.
2.
To give a human character or expression to.
“Humanized divinities.”
Caird.
3.
(Med.)
To convert into something human or belonging to man;
as, to
humanize
vaccine lymph
.

Hu′man-ize

,
Verb.
I.
To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.
By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury.
Humanizing
by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery.
Franklin.

Webster 1828 Edition

Humanize

HU'MANIZE

,
Verb.
T.
To soften; to render humane; to subdue dispositions to cruelty, and render susceptible of kind feelings.
Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures?

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