Barbarizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Barbarize \Bar"ba*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Barbarized}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Barbarizing}.]
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     1. To become barbarous.
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              The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the
              time of Trajan.                       --De Quincey.
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     2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
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              The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against
              the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored
              Anglicisms.                           --Milton.
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