Humanize

Definition of Humanize

Hu´man`ize

v. t.	1.	To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. [imp. & p. p. Humanized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Humanizing .] Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion? - Addison.
	2.	To give a human character or expression to.
	3.	(Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
v. i.	1.	To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. - Franklin.

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