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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.
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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.
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3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to
make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
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4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to
cause to grow as under natural conditions.
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Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might
yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
--Hawthorne.
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Naturalize \Nat"u*ral*ize\, v. i.
1. To become as if native.
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2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the
exclusion of the supernatural.
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Infected by this naturalizing tendency. --H.
Bushnell.
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