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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Barbarize

Bar′ba·rize (bär′bȧ·rīz), v. 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, v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.] To make barbarous.

The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.