barbarize

English

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
2. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
   • (Can we date this quote by De Quincey and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.

3. (intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.

Translations

to cause to become savage

• Interlingue:
• Italian: barbarizzare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: effero (la)
• Spanish: barbarizar (es)