Hypertext Webster Gateway: "naturalize"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Naturalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Naturalizing}.] [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
naturalize
v 1: make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last
year" [syn: {naturalise}] [ant: {denaturalize}]
2: explain with reference to nature
3: adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized
into an American setting" [syn: {naturalise}]
4: make more natural or lifelike [syn: {naturalise}] [ant: {denaturalize}]
5: adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment;
"domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: {domesticate}, {cultivate},
{naturalise}, {tame}]
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