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Barbarize \Bar"ba*rize\, v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser, LL.
barbarizare.]
To make barbarous.
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The hideous changes which have barbarized France.
--Burke.
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Barbarize \Bar"ba*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Barbarized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Barbarizing}.]
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1. To become barbarous.
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The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the
time of Trajan. --De Quincey.
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2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
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The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against
the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored
Anglicisms. --Milton.
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