Bär'ba-rize1, v. i.
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.