| barbarize | 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) |
|---|