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Definition of Acclimatize

1. Verb. Get used to a certain climate. "They never acclimatized in Egypt"

Definition of Acclimatize

1. v. t. To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.

Definition of Acclimatize

1. Verb. (intransitive) To get used to a new climate. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To make used to a new climate or one that is different from that which is natural; to inure or habituate to other circumstances; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Acclimatize

1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]

Medical Definition of Acclimatize

1. To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants. Origin: Acclimatized; Acclimatizing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Acclimatize

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

1. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1893)
"From my, own experience, I can assert that every attempt to acclimatize a horse is nothing more nor less than cruelty. Horses, like men, are affected by ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In England more than one attempt to acclimatize the doctrines of Marr and Treitschke has ... Abortive attempts to acclimatize anti-Semitism have also been ..."

3. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1914)
"The effort to acclimatize the lobster on the Pacific Coast was continued by arrangements for the transfer of several carloads from Maine to points in Puget ..."

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