Verb (used with object) : foreign influences barbarizing the Latin language. From Dictionary.com.
This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Italian, or their native tongue; Pombal declaring, that the custom of speaking Latin was only "to teach them to barbarize.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
"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 we breathe in.". From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
The legions are barbarized and they barbarize the Emperor. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval People] Reference
They don't realize that all this only helps barbarize war: a luxury the terrorists can afford. From Wordnik.com. [Filasteen] Reference
He never had a family to de-barbarize, even though he did write very pretty books about the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Mother] Reference
Manners are what vex or soothe, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us by a constant, steady, uniform, invincible operation like that of the air we breathe. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing to the Front] Reference
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 we breathe in. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference
Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform and insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding] Reference
He is compelled to conform his operations to the policy which looks to having but one workshop for the world; and instead of civilizing his negroes by bringing them to work in combination, he must barbarize them by dispersion. From Wordnik.com. [The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished] Reference
Contemporary low-skill immigration (especially illegal immigrants, a large majority of whom don't have high school diplomas and 30 percent haven't finished ninth grade) threatens to re-barbarize American capitalism, destroy the social safety net, and create a permanent underclass. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles] Reference
He was much in fashion at the Hague, but I don't know if he will succeed so well here: for in such great cities as this, you know people affect not to think themselves honoured by foreigners; and though we don't quite barbarize them as the French do, they are toujours des etrangers. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
Contemporary low-skill immigration especially illegal immigrants, a large majority of whom don’t have high school diplomas and 30 percent haven’t finished ninth grade threatens to re-barbarize American capitalism, destroy the social safety net, and create a permanent underclass. From Wordnik.com. [Student and Exchange Visitor Program: Where Exchange Students Come From, And What They Do When They Get Here] Reference
When such a chaos falls upon primitive backward peoples, and when there seems to be no prospect of their re-establishing peace and security for life and property, for themselves, the only way was for some civilized nation to step in and protect the inhabitants from being exploited by so-called civilized adventurers and put an end to evils, which, if unchecked, could only destroy and barbarize the people, by maintaining order and just law, until such time as the people have learnt how to govern themselves under the new conditions created by Western knowledge and ways. From Wordnik.com. [Has The British Empire Completed Its Task?] Reference
All it would do is barbarize you. From Wordnik.com. [Crying??!!!] Reference
Our senses barbarize us. From Wordnik.com. [Uncollected Prose] Reference
And then his touch would barbarize. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie X] Reference
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