BARBARIZE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

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

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