'Barbarizing' definitions:
Definition of 'Barbarizing'
From: GCIDE
- Barbarize \Bar"ba*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To become barbarous. [1913 Webster]
- The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. [1913 Webster]
- The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]