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n. 1. a resident of Arizona.
Syn. -- Arizonan [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
Syn. -- barbarisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Barbarized p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To become barbarous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare. ] To make barbarous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To poison with curare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dépolarisation. ] The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarized condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depolarized p. pr. & vb. n. Depolarizing. ] [ Pref. de- + polarize: cf. F. dépolarizer. ] 1. (Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarizing medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarization, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyzer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Elec.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shakespeare and Plutarch's “Lives” are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Familiarized p. pr. & vb. n. Familiarizing ] [ Cf. F. familiariser. ] 1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress; we familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having become familiar.
Syn. -- adjusted, acquainted. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. serving to familiarize. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reduce to a forula; to formulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. gargarizare, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Herborize. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Gr. &unr_; to bless. ] To congratulate. [ Oxford Univ. Cant ] Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. act of assembling and putting into readiness the military forces for war or other emergency.
Syn. -- mobilization, mobilisation, militarisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. & i. to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.
Syn. -- make military. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. Equipped with weapons; armed; -- used of persons, regions, or the military. Contrasted to unarmed and demilitarized; as, if that's a demilitarized zone, I wonder what a militarized zone would look like. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. To make muscular. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Nectarized p. pr. & vb. n. Nectarizing ] To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To pander. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of particularizing. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Particularized p. pr. & vb. n. Particularizing ] [ Cf. F. particulariser. ] To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. [ Also spelled particularise. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial; as, to particularize in a narrative. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Stated or described in detail.
Syn. -- circumstantial, detailed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Peculiarized p. pr. & vb. n. Peculiarizing ] To make peculiar; to set apart or assign, as an exclusive possession. [ R. ] Dr. John Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Plagiarized p. pr. & vb. n. Plagiarizing. ] To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Susceptible of polarization. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. polarisation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Opt.) A peculiar affection or condition of the rays of light or heat, in consequence of which they exhibit different properties in different directions. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ If a beam of light, which has been reflected from a plate of unsilvered glass at an angle of about 56°, be received upon a second plate of glass similar to the former, and at the same angle of incidence, the light will be readily reflected when the two planes of incidence are parallel to each other, but will not be reflected when the two planes of incidence are perpendicular to each other. The light has, therefore, acquired new properties by reflection from the first plate of glass, and is called polarized light, while the modification which the light has experienced by this reflection is called polarization. The plane in which the beam of light is reflected from the first mirror is called the plane of polarization. The angle of polarization is the angle at which a beam of light must be reflected, in order that the polarization may be the most complete. The term polarization was derived from the theory of emission, and it was conceived that each luminous molecule has two poles analogous to the poles of a magnet; but this view is not now held. According to the undulatory theory, ordinary light is produced by vibrations transverse or perpendicular to the direction of the ray, and distributed as to show no distinction as to any particular direction. But when, by any means, these, vibrations are made to take place in one plane, the light is said to be plane polarized. If only a portion of the vibrations lie in one plane the ray is said to be partially polarized. Light may be polarized by several methods other than by reflection, as by refraction through most crystalline media, or by being transmitted obliquely through several plates of glass with parallel faces. If a beam of polarized light be transmitted through a crystal of quartz in the direction of its axis, the plane of polarization will be changed by an angle proportional to the thickness of the crystal. This phenomenon is called rotatory polarization. A beam of light reflected from a metallic surface, or from glass surfaces under certain peculiar conditions, acquires properties still more complex, its vibrations being no longer rectilinear, but circular, or elliptical. This phenomenon is called circular or elliptical polarization. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Elec.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Polarized p. pr. & vb. n. Polarizing ] [ Cf. F. polariser. ] To communicate polarity to. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Popularized p. pr. & vb. n. Popularizing ] [ Cf. F. populariser. ] To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. “The popularizing of religious teaching.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who popularizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion n. [1913 Webster]

Germany . . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To cause to become regular; to regulate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Saccharized p. pr. & vb. n. Saccharizing ] To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shelter by means of a sanctuary or sacred privileges. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. sécularisation. ] The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Secularized p. pr. & vb. n. Secularizing ] [ Cf. F. séculariser. ] 1. To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To convert from spiritual to secular or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the Reformation the abbey was secularized. W. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make worldly or unspiritual. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make singular or single; to distinguish. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Photog.) Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Solarized p. pr. & vb. n. Solarizing ] (Photog.) To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Photog.) To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera; -- an older term now replaced by overexpose. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly. Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]