Definition of Barberize
Bar"ba*rize (&?;), 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 Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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