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/nˈætʃərəlˌaɪz/ /nˈætʃrəlˌaɪz/ Listen

Naturalize

verb

(past & past part. naturalized; pres. part. naturalizing)

Make into a citizen. Synonym: naturalise.

Explain with reference to nature.

Adopt to another place. Synonym: naturalise.

Make more natural or lifelike. Synonym: naturalise.

Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment. Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame. "Tame the soil"

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"Naturalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... which the great and peculiar merit consists in its being utterly incomprehensible to the uninformed understanding, while its meaning must be perfectly clear and perspicuous to the practised patterer of Romany, or Pedlar's French. I have, moreover, been the first to introduce and naturalize amongst us a measure which, though common enough in the Argotic minstrelsy of France, has been hitherto utterly unknown to our pedestrian poetry. Some years afterwards, the song alluded to, better known ...

— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth

... modern maritime law and the whole system falls, and capture on the sea becomes pure barbarism,—distinguished from piracy only by the astuteness of a legal technicality. The Southern Confederacy could give no guaranty. Just as it undertook to naturalize foreign seamen upon the quarter-deck of its roving cruisers, so it undertook to administer a system of maritime law which precluded the most solemn and important of its provisions— a judicial decision—and converted the humane and legal right of capture into an absolute and ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... Academie der Schonen Redekunste, he contributed his Ariadne, and an essay on Dante. The kindred genius of Burger favourably influenced his own mind and tastes, and moved him to make the first known attempt to naturalize the Italian ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel

... gratitude of the President of the Association, under whose auspices this great undertaking has been successfully carried through, will be shared by all lovers of Art and all the friends of American civilization and culture. We cannot naturalize the Old-World cathedrals, for they were the architectural embodiment of a form of worship belonging to other ages and differently educated races. But the organ was only lent to human priesthoods for their ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various

... that it will not be superfluous to specify one or two of the reasons which induced him to select the present romance, as the first-fruit of his attempt to naturalize in England the ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXIX. - March, 1843, Vol. LIII. • Various

Words linked to "Naturalize" : modify, adapt, explain, plant, naturalization, cultivate, accommodate, tame, denaturalize, plant life, change, domesticate, flora, explicate, immigrate, alter, naturalise