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Naturalize   /nˈætʃərəlˌaɪz/  /nˈætʃrəlˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Naturalize  v. t.  (past & past part. naturalized; pres. part. naturalizing)  
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."


Naturalize  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."





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"Naturalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... complied with federal naturalization law and constitute him a citizen of the United States, or of the State, so as to deprive the federal courts of jurisdiction over a controversy between him and a citizen of a State.[1062] But power to naturalize aliens may be, and early was, devolved by Congress upon state courts having a common law jurisdiction.[1063] Also States may confer the right of suffrage upon resident aliens who have declared their intention to become citizens, and have ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... repugnant to the genius of our language; which can only be pressed into the service by a violation of every rule of prosody; and of which, notwithstanding my respect for the eminent men who have attempted to naturalize it, I could never read ten lines without being irresistibly ...
— The Iliad • Homer
... the whole of a tour through the greater part of Europe. The effects of this would be imagined to have been the entire eradication of his aboriginal nature, and a perfect conversion to civilisation. So thought his master, but he was deceived; and so have been all those who have attempted to naturalize the blacks to an industrial mode of life. Jemmy Davis, as soon as he returned with his master to Australia and the station, took his departure from the comforts of the whites; denuding himself of his clothes, which he had so long accustomed himself to ...
— Fern Vale (Volume 1) - or the Queensland Squatter • Colin Munro
... am so full of businesses, I cannot answere thee acutely: I will returne perfect Courtier, in the which my instruction shall serue to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be capeable of a Courtiers councell, and vnderstand what aduice shall thrust vppon thee, else thou diest in thine vnthankfulnes, and thine ignorance makes thee away, farewell: When thou hast leysure, say thy praiers: when thou hast none, remember thy Friends: Get thee a ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... temper of the man and producing its characteristic effects in his actions. It does not operate "like a charm or spell"—it operates only as a vital principle[59] and we become eternally the self which we ourselves form. "We naturalize ourselves," to use his striking phrase, "to the employment of eternity."[60] We are lost, not by Adam's sin, but by our own; and we are saved, not by Christ's historical death, but by our own obedience ...
— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones


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