Category:Naturalize

Nat"u*ral*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Naturalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Naturalizing.] Etym: [cf. F. naturaliser. See natural.]

1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen On; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or State, and place in the condition of a native subject.

3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make One's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.

4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to Grow as under natural conditions. Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized In the new england climate. Hawthorne.

Naturalize Nat"u*ral*ize, v. i.

1. To become as if native.

2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion Of the supernatural. Infected by this naturalizing tendency. H. Bushnell.