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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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29 words match “NATURALIZE”

NATURALIZE v. 6 definitions

To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

CONNATURALIZE v.

To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt. [Obs.] Dr. J. Scott.

DENATURALIZE v. 2 definitions

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

DISNATURALIZE v.

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

SUPERNATURALIZE v.

To treat or regard as supernatural.

UNNATURALIZE v.

To make unnatural. [R.] Hales.

ADVENTITIOUS a.

Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

To make resemble. [Obs.] If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.

Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré. Droit d'aubaine (, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

dentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long. Casbew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible a…

CITIZEN n. 2 definitions

A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.

A genus of sterculiaceous trees, natives of tropical Africa, esp. Guinea, but now naturalized in tropical America, esp. in the West Indies and Brazil.

A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark. Great Dane. (Zoöl.) See Danish dog, under Danish.

To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize. [Obs.] There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard HillStrype.

DENIZEN n. 2 definitions

part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.

To admit to the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.

A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

oreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects. Swift.…