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Naturalizing
(gcide) | 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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Denaturalizing
(gcide) | Denaturalize \De*nat"u*ral*ize\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Denaturalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Denaturalizing.] [Cf. F.
d['e]naturaliser.]
1. To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.
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2. To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive
of citizenship; to denationalize. [R.]
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They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of
denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of
publicly renouncing their allegiance to their
sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his
enemy. --Prescott.
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3. same as denature.
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