Barbarize

Definition of Barbarize

Bar´ba`rize

v. i.	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.
v. t.	1.	To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. - Burke.

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