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/nˈætʃərəlˌaɪz/ /nˈætʃrəlˌaɪz/ Listen

Naturalize

verb

(past & past part. naturalized; pres. part. naturalizing)

Make into a citizen. Synonym: naturalise.

Explain with reference to nature.

Adopt to another place. Synonym: naturalise.

Make more natural or lifelike. Synonym: naturalise.

Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment. Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame. "Tame the soil"

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"Naturalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... complied with federal naturalization law and constitute him a citizen of the United States, or of the State, so as to deprive the federal courts of jurisdiction over a controversy between him and a citizen of a State.[1062] But power to naturalize aliens may be, and early was, devolved by Congress upon state courts having a common law jurisdiction.[1063] Also States may confer the right of suffrage upon resident aliens who have declared their intention to become citizens, and have ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... repugnant to the genius of our language; which can only be pressed into the service by a violation of every rule of prosody; and of which, notwithstanding my respect for the eminent men who have attempted to naturalize it, I could never read ten lines without being irresistibly ...

— The Iliad • Homer

... the whole of a tour through the greater part of Europe. The effects of this would be imagined to have been the entire eradication of his aboriginal nature, and a perfect conversion to civilisation. So thought his master, but he was deceived; and so have been all those who have attempted to naturalize the blacks to an industrial mode of life. Jemmy Davis, as soon as he returned with his master to Australia and the station, took his departure from the comforts of the whites; denuding himself of his clothes, which he had so long accustomed himself to ...

— Fern Vale (Volume 1) - or the Queensland Squatter • Colin Munro

... am so full of businesses, I cannot answere thee acutely: I will returne perfect Courtier, in the which my instruction shall serue to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be capeable of a Courtiers councell, and vnderstand what aduice shall thrust vppon thee, else thou diest in thine vnthankfulnes, and thine ignorance makes thee away, farewell: When thou hast leysure, say thy praiers: when thou hast none, remember thy Friends: Get thee a ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

Words linked to "Naturalize" : accommodate, adapt, domesticate, change, explicate, alter, flora, immigrate, modify, denaturalize, plant life, tame, naturalization, explain, plant, naturalise