Lexic.us

Definition of Barbarize

1. Verb. Become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language.

2. Verb. Make crude or savage in behavior or speech. "His years in prison have barbarized the young man"

Definition of Barbarize

1. v. i. To become barbarous.

2. v. t. To make barbarous.

Definition of Barbarize

1. Verb. to cause to become savage or uncultured ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Barbarize

1. [v -RIZED, -RIZING, -RIZES]

Medical Definition of Barbarize

1. 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) Origin: Barbarized; Barbarizing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbarize

barbarians barbaric barbarically barbarious barbariously barbariousness barbarisation barbarisations barbarise barbarism

barbarisms barbarities barbarity barbarization barbarizations barbarize (current term) barbarized barbarizes barbarizing barbarous

barbarously barbarousness barbarousnesses barbary barbary dove barbasco barbascoes barbascos barbastel barbastelle

Literary usage of Barbarize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"barbarize, v. A Barbarian is now - ISM. app. to—One who is rude, fierce, ... To barbarize, is to reduce to a -ova. state of barbarism ; to make, ..."

2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"This is impossible: all barbarize here. He has bought six quarter sections, and hopes not to do more than keep his property, get land for his family, ..."

3. Nuttall's Journal of Travels Into the Arkansa Territory October 2, 1818 by Thomas Nuttall, Thomas Hulme, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1905)
"This is impossible: all barbarize here. He has bought six quarter sections, and hopes not to do more than keep his property, get land for his family, ..."

4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To barbarize, (bar'-ba-rize) va To bring back to barbarism ; to render savage. To barbarize, (bar'-ba-rize) cn To ignorant ; cruel ; inhuman ; brutal. ..."

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