barbarize

How To Use barbarize In A Sentence

• The institution had been wiped out in New England, not by enfranchisement, but by sale to the people of the South, when no longer useful or valuable at home; and all the sin of slavery had followed the slave, to barbarize and degrade the people of the South. The Memories of Fifty Years
• his years in prison have barbarized the young man
• Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform and insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
• Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. The Elements of Character
• Princes to whom union was destruction, and division strength, have been a canker at their root of nationality, and have barbarized their language; but the good that was in them ever, is in them yet, and a noble people may be, one day, raised up from these ashes. Pictures from Italy
• The legions are barbarized and they barbarize the Emperor. Medieval People
• The foreign influences barbarized the Latin language.
• Italian, or their native tongue; Pombal declaring, that the custom of speaking Latin was only "to teach them to barbarize. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
• In those areas where the Romanized population was the strongest element, such as Italy and southern France, this custom was in effect a barbarized Roman law. COMMON LAW
• George Meredith says a good thing in 'Diana of the Crossways': 'Before you can civilize a man, you must first de-barbarize him.' The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales