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.
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Bar"ba*rize (?), v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.]
To make barbarous.
The hideous changes which have barbarized France.
Burke.
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