NATURALIZE

naturalize. Naturalize, v.t. to admit to native privileges

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Nat″u‐ral‐ize (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Naturalized (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Naturalizing (#).] [[Cf. F. naturaliser. See Natural.]] 1. 1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
2. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.
3. 3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
4. 4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. Hawthorne.