Nat"u*ral*ize (?; 135), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Naturalized (#); p.
pr. & vb. n. Naturalizing (#).] [Cf. F.
naturaliser. See Natural.] 1. To
make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
2. To confer the rights and privileges of a
native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a
foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a
native subject.
3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or
vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign
words.
4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to
acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet
be naturalized in the New England climate.
Hawthorne.
Nat"u*ral*ize, v. i. 1.
To become as if native.
2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies
or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.
Infected by this naturalizing
tendency.
H. Bushnell.
