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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
HU'MANIZE, v.t. To soften; to render humane; to subdue dispositions to cruelty, and render susceptible of kind feelings.
To render human or humane] to soften; to make
gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or
civilize.
Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion? Addison. To give a human character or expression
to.
"Humanized divinities." Caird. To convert into something
human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine
lymph.
To become or be
made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.
By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Franklin. | ||||||||