2 entries under this word

Barbarize

Bär'ba-rize, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To become barbarous. [Rare.] The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey. 2. To use or adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. The ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.

Bär'ba-rīze, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [Fr. barbariser, L. Lat. barbarizare.] To make barbarous.

Hideous changes have barbarized France. Burke.