Usage examples (5)

• Verb (used with object) : foreign influences barbarizing the Latin language
• But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.
• "Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air...
• I mean the German Doctor's Latin, who, apologising for false quantity in his pronunciation, said ` nos Ge~rmani non obse~rvamus quanti~tadem sylla~borum. 'the Yankee teachers...