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Barbarize v. i. (past & past part. barbarized; pres. part. barbarizing)

To become barbarous. "The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan."

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."

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Etymology of 'Barbarize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Barbarize" Quotes from Famous Books

... man concerning their determined hostility to the human race. Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and color to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... Germany to discourage their predatory propensities and their habits of devastation and to hold them back from their relapse into the Schrecklichkeit of savage warfare? George Meredith says a good thing in 'Diana of the Crossways': 'Before you can civilize a man, you must first de-barbarize him.' That is the trouble with the Germans, especially their leaders and masters. They have never gotten rid of their fundamental barbarism, the idolatry of might ...

— The Valley of Vision • Henry Van Dyke

Words linked to "Barbarize" : barbarise, alter, change, modify