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naturalized, ppl. a.|ˈnætjʊərəlaɪzd|
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1. Of persons: Admitted to the rights or privileges of a native citizen or subject. In looser sense, practically made into a native by residence.
a. In predicative use. † Also const. to.
1559in Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 440 Frenche men could nott be justlie called strangearis, seeing that thei war naturalized. 1623tr. Favine's Theat. Hon. iii. vii. 392 Except they be naturalized, and inhabitants of our owne kingdome. c1677in Marvell Growth Popery 62 The other half, and the whole of the Lading, belonging to Simon Francia, who is naturalized. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 182, I was..naturaliz'd to the Place, and to the Manner of Living. 1775in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) I. 332 Mr. Dean..was early naturalized among the Indians, well understands their customs. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 339 They must be..natural-born subjects, or naturalized, or made denizens. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. xviii. (1880) 319 Many..Flemings had no sooner settled..and become naturalised, than they..assumed English [names].
transf. and fig.1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xli. 263 The Godly..as naturalized in that heavenly Kingdome. 1788Sir J. Reynolds Disc. xiv. Wks. 1797 I. 305 A mind thrown back two thousand years, and as it were naturalized in antiquity. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. (ed. 2) 189 It is..advisable..that they [chronometers] should be received on board at an earlier period, so that they may become naturalized in their new position.
b. Attributively. (Sometimes qualifying the original, and sometimes the acquired, designation.)
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 69 The Country People and naturalized Portugals live to a good Old Age. 1753Scots Mag. June 270/2 Naturalized Jews claiming the privileges of Englishmen. 1775Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. 112 Spain having learned the art..from their naturalised guests the Arabians. 1822J. Flint Lett. Amer. 171 He is a naturalized citizen of the United States, but a native of England. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiv. V. 141 The names of Sir Joseph Williamson.., a born Englishman, and of Portland, a naturalised Englishman. 1873Smiles Huguenots France ii. i. (1881) 313 The disposition of the naturalised Huguenots to adopt names of an English sound.
transf.1817Keats Lett. Wks. (1889) III. 74 We sometimes skim into a bed of rushes, and there become naturalized river-folks.
c. Closely attached to one. rare—1.
1809Malkin Gil Blas xi. ix. ⁋6, I am too much naturalized to you on the side of obligation, not to take a permanent interest in all your pleasures and disappointments.
2. Of things, languages, words, practices, etc. (See naturalize v. 2.)
1625in K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis p. iv, Thy Argenis..by thy paine Is naturalized, and doth in English reigne. 1671Clarendon Dial. Tracts (1727) 338 Since the Latin hath ceased to be a language,..the French is almost naturalized through Europe. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 224 The word amongst Artificers is almost naturaliz'd. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. vi. (1864) IX. 213 The native language, or rather the naturalised Latin reasserted its independence. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer 52 Homer never directly assigns to a foreign origin anything that has become naturalised in Greece.
†b. Firmly rooted or fixed. Obs. rare.
1665Needham Med. Medicinæ 296 Most mysterious Maladies are naturalised within our Vitals. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 148 'Tis late, if ever, that we discover out so confirm'd and so Naturalized Mistake.
3. Of animals and plants. (See the vb. 3.)
1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 336 See E. bot. 63, where it is first adopted as a naturalized plant. 18111st Rep. Merino Soc. 52 This kind cannot be perfectly produced but by naturalized sheep of the pure race. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. iv. (1873) 89 These naturalised plants are of a highly diversified nature. 1875Wallace in Encycl. Brit. I. 84/1 A naturalised animal or plant..must be able to withstand all the vicissitudes of the seasons in its new home.
4. Affected by naturalism; reduced to the level of natural things; made natural.
1858Sears Athan. 6 Naturalized faith preserves the scattered dust to be combined anew. Ibid. iii. vi. 305 Natural men in all ages..attain only to a belief in a naturalized spirit-world. 1880in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 448/1 A naturalised note is always a white key on the pianoforte or organ, unless it be combined with a sharp or flat. |