BARBARIZES

Verb

barbarizes

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barbarize

Source: Wiktionary


BARBARIZE

Bar"ba*rize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized (; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing (.]

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.

Bar"ba*rize, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.]

Definition: To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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