Usage examples (18)

• Verb (used with object) : foreign influences barbarizing the Latin language
• This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences.
• Italian, or their native tongue; Pombal declaring, that the custom of speaking Latin was only "to teach them to barbarize."
• "Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air...