humanizedadj.
/ˈhjuːmənʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)juməˌnaɪzd/ 1. Made human; portrayed or endowed with human characteristics, attributes, or qualities; (now) spec. (of a landscape) showing signs of human settlement; having a visible human presence.
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the world > people > [adjective] > made human
humanate1551
humanized1657
1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iv. vi. 1649 Oh wonderfull and mysterious person! who can understand, or sufficiently admire, this Humanized Deity.
1818 R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. (1876) 19 The humanised head being sometimes bearded, and sometimes not.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 322 The humanized aspects of the external world.
1879 E. Dowden Southey iv. 84 Even after he had grown a mountaineer he loved a humanized landscape, one in which the gains of man's courage, toil, and endurance are apparent.
1923 N. Foerster Nature in Amer. Lit. v. 146 His predilection was for a humanized landscape replete with light and vivacity.
1994 M. Gauvreau in W. Klempa Burning Bush & Few Acres of Snow 47 Falconer appeared to have accepted the ‘liberal’, humanized Jesus and the purely ethical gospel so attractively presented in the writings of the German Ritschlians.
2005 C. Mann 1491 Introd. i. 10 It's a completely humanized landscape.
2. Made more humane; civilized, refined.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [adjective] > humane > made
humanized1709
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 29. §2 One can scarce be in the most humanized society without risquing one's life.
1771 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 298 I live..in liberal and humanized company.
1805 W. Hunter Sketch Polit. State Europe (ed. 2) 67 To break us in to the endurance of his dispensations, by subduing every humanized sentiment of the soul.
1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 331 Notions..no longer suitable to our refined and humanized age.
1911 Times 28 June 17/2 The friends of the Classical Association..wished to spread widely the advantages of a really humanized education.
1961 M. F. Freehill Gifted Children vii. 132 Some of these children had not been raised by animals but had..been recently abandoned by parents who had failed to teach them humanized behavior.
2002 A. Feenberg Transforming Technol. (rev. ed.) iii. 73 A thin veneer of ‘humanized’ technology on the surface of a world engineered in all its essential features to the destruction of man and nature.
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a. Biology. Of vaccinial material: obtained from or passaged through humans (as opposed to cattle); esp. in humanized lymph. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > vaccine or antiserum > [noun] > vaccine > of cowpox or smallpox
variolous matter1676
vaccine lymph1799
lymph1800
vaccine1800
humanized lymph1839
pock-lymph1876
calf-lymph1884
1839 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 31 558 Here then surely were ample opportunities of ascertaining the comparative value of the primary and of the transmitted or humanised lymph.
1868 E. C. Seaton Handbk. Vaccination 20 Retro-vaccine lymph, or humanized lymph that had been passed through the cow, then retransferred to the human subject.
1880 Dr. Cameron in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 11 June Guarantee against the propagation of those human diseases occasionally invaccinated with humanised lymph.
1902 Public Health 14 406 The one good point in the Act seemed to be the issue of glycerinated calf lymph instead of the humanized lymph previously issued.
1908 Lancet 23 May 1503/2 Arm-to-arm vaccination with humanised vaccine was also discontinued in compulsory areas [of India].
1934 Zinsser's Textbk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) vii. lxi. 897 Again, they [sc. calves] may be inoculated with ‘seed virus’ obtained from the vesicles of human vaccinia. This method of using humanized virus for the inoculation of calves for vaccine production is preferred by many workers and is referred to as ‘retrovaccination’.
2005 S. Bhattacharya et al. Fractured States i. 36 In 1891, for example, the two batches of sixty-five tubes of humanised and calf lymph sent to India from Europe were considered unsatisfactory.
b. Of (usually cow's) milk: modified, originally by the addition of water and sugar, to resemble human milk.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [adjective] > treated for infants
humanized1886
1886 Lancet 20 Nov. 981/2 We have said nothing about the humanised milk and the cream and whey methods.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 19 Oct. 5/3 The Borough Council of Battersea has determined to undertake the supply of sterilised and humanised milk.
1955 M. G. Wohl & R. S. Goodhart Mod. Nutrition xxxiv. 919 ‘Humanized milks’..imitate to a greater or lesser extent the caloric proportions, the mineral content or the fat of breast milk.
1998 Esquire May 80/1 A company called PPL has created a transgenic cow, with human genes, for the purpose of producing ‘humanized’ milk, with 2.4 grams of human protein per liter.
2007 Small Ruminant Res. 70 270/1 In this regard, camel milk could be more suitable for the production of ‘humanised’ milk.
c. Biology. Of an antibody or other protein: modified, esp. by recombinant DNA technology, to contain portions of or resemble a human molecule. Also (of an organism, organ, etc.): containing or expressing human genes.
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1982 Sci. News 9 Oct. 230/2 Novo Industry, which dominates the European market, last June introduced ‘humanized’ insulin, in which pig insulin is chemically converted to match the human type.
1988 Serodiagnosis & Immunotherapy in Infectious Dis. 2 3/1 Human monoclonal antibodies or humanized mouse monoclonals might be a more practical and economic source of antibodies to the 47kD antigen.
1992 Independent 25 Sept. 4/8 Scientists in Cambridge have developed a new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis using ‘humanised’ antibodies derived from rats.
1997 Daily Tel. 23 Apr. 2/3 The setback for artificial hearts clears the way for the development of ‘humanised’ organs from pigs and suggests that the future of heart transplantation may lie in animal organs.
2003 S. A. Huber in L. T. Cooper Myocarditis iii. 66 In a more recent study, production of ‘humanized’ mice (transgenic mice expressing the human CD4 and HLA-DQ6 genes) allowed induction of heart disease through immunization with cardiac myosin.
2006 Guardian 17 Mar. i. 7/5 TGN1412 is a humanised monoclonal antibody, a genetically engineered protein that is part mouse but mostly human, and which is accepted by the human body.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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