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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

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imp. & p. p.

Modernized

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p. pr. & vb. n.

Modernizing

[Cf. F.

moderniser

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

Percy.

Verb.

To render modern; to adapt ancient compositions to modern persons or things, or rather to adapt the ancient style or idiom to modern style and taste.