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denaturalize, v.|dɪˈnætjʊərəlaɪz, diː-|
[f. de- II. 1 + natural, naturalize: so in mod.F. (Littré).]
1. trans. To deprive of its original nature; to alter or pervert the nature of; to make unnatural.
1812Southey Omniana I. 34 All creatures are, more or less, denaturalized by confinement. 1853H. Rogers Ecl. Faith 140 This ‘spiritual’ faculty..denaturalised and disabled. 1881Palgrave Visions Eng. Pref. 13 The lyrical ballad..like certain wild flowers, is almost always denaturalized by culture.
2. To deprive of the status and rights of a natural subject or citizen; the opposite of naturalize.
1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) II. 119 The Duque d' Aveiro, having been degraded and denaturalized previous to condemnation. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. Introd. 30 They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their Sovereign.
Hence deˈnaturalized, -izing ppl. adjs.
1800Southey Life (1850) II. 45 By residing in that huge denaturalised city. 1812Edin. Rev. XIX. 375 Cast off without ceremony as denaturalized beings. 1820Lond. Mag. May 549/2 The practice of such denaturalizing depravities. 1847De Quincey Schlosser's Lit. Hist. Wks. 1862 VII. 54 In their own denaturalised hearts they read only a degraded nature. |