Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Modernize
Mod′ern·ize (mŏd′ẽrn·īz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Modernized; 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.