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Naturalized   /nˈætʃərəlˌaɪzd/  /nˈætʃrəlˌaɪzd/   Listen
Naturalized

adjective
1.
Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation.  Synonym: established.
2.
Planted so as to give an effect of wild growth.  Synonym: naturalised.


Naturalize

verb
(past & past part. naturalized; pres. part. naturalizing)
1.
Make into a citizen.  Synonym: naturalise.
2.
Explain with reference to nature.
3.
Adopt to another place.  Synonym: naturalise.
4.
Make more natural or lifelike.  Synonym: naturalise.
5.
Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.  Synonyms: cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, tame.  "Tame the soil"





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"Naturalized" Quotes from Famous Books



... reality no exception to this policy. It was not as the correspondent of an English newspaper, but as an ex-Mazzinian revolutionist and the author of Fra Dolcino, that this gentleman was obnoxious to the Papal authorities. Though a naturalized English subject, he had not ceased to be an Italian, and his personal influence amongst Roman society might have been considerable, though the effect of his English correspondence, however able, would have been next ...
— Rome in 1860 • Edward Dicey
... benefit of this borrowing is lost to us, owing to our modern and pedantic attempts to preserve the foreign sounds and shapes of imported words, which make their current use unnecessarily difficult. Owing to our false taste in this matter many words which have been long naturalized in the language are being now put back into their foreign forms, and our speech is being thus gradually impoverished. This process of de-assimilation generally begins with the restoration of foreign accents to such words as have ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 3 (1920) - A Few Practical Suggestions • Society for Pure English
... been naturalized from tropical America to New England; the seed commands from six to eight cents per pound; the oil distilled from this seed brings one dollar and a ...
— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall
... till the school gives up its claim to them. Superintendent Sabsovich sees to it that it is not too early. He is himself a school trustee, elected after a fight on the "Woodbine ticket," which gave notice to the farmers of the town that the aliens of that settlement are getting naturalized to the point of demanding their rights. The opposition retaliated by nicknaming the leader of the victorious faction the "Czar of Woodbine." He in turn invited them to hear the lectures at the Agricultural School. His ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis
... the great financier, Francis Markrute, originally sprang from. He was now a naturalized Englishman and he looked English enough. He was slight and fair, and had an immaculately groomed appearance generally—which even the best of valets cannot always produce. He wore his clothes with that quiet, unconscious air which is particularly ...
— The Reason Why • Elinor Glyn


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