† endenizev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To make a denizen or citizen of; to naturalize, enfranchise. Also transferred and figurative.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > naturalize
denize1577
denizen1577
naturalize1593
endenize1598
inhousehold1611
domesticate1750
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > like or sympathize with other nations [verb (transitive)] > admit foreign words, beliefs, etc.
denize1577
denizen1577
naturalize1593
endenize1598
society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [verb (transitive)] > admit to citizen's rights > naturalize
naturalize1559
endenizen1592
endenize1598
citizenize1798
nationalize1809
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Patriare, to endenize, or enfranchise into a countrie.
1603 S. Daniel Def. Ryme in Panegyrike (new ed.) sig. G4 Euery language hath her proper number or measure..which, Custome..doth indenize, and make naturall.
1615 J. Bowle Serm. Funerall Earle of Kent sig. B 3v Dauid made hast to be indenized, and possessed of the Kingdome of Heauen.
1687 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 404 Several French..are lately gott out of France..and the King hath indenized several of them.
1749 B. Martin Eng. Dict. Introd. Eng. Tongue 17 Many words and terms in these arts have also been indenized.
2. To remove into another order of being; to change into a superhuman or supersensuous form, and so to ‘spirit away,’ to ‘translate’. Hence, to metamorphose.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > be transformed into
to put on1526
metamorphose1576
metamorphize1587
endenize1610
convert1934
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. xix. 698 Æneas was not to bee found: some said he was indenized.
1633 J. Fisher Fuimus Troes ii. iii. sig. Ciii The peruerse and peeuish; Are next indenniz'd into wrinkled Apes.
Derivatives
enˈdenized adj.
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1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. vii. 14 What choice, selected, and endenized Hearbes, Plants, Fruits and Physicall Simples be implanted and bestowed.
enˈdenizing n.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > admission of foreign words, beliefs, etc.
endenizing1643
naturalization1747
society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > status or rights of being a citizen > position or rights of native-born > granting
naturalization1558
endenization1579
naturalizing1606
endenizing1643
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > action or fact of accustoming > by adaptation to circumstances > naturalization
endenizing1643
naturalization1747
1643 W. Burton tr. Alstedius Beloved City To Rdr. 2 The generall welcome and long entertainment, which the other learned workes of this same Authour have had in our Schooles..seemed to me not to deny this piece an endenizing, or freedome.
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