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humanize, v.|ˈhjuːmənaɪz|
[ad. F. humanise-r (16th c. in Littré), f. hūmān-us: see -ize.]
1. trans. To make or render human; to give a human character to, imbue with human qualities; to turn into, or represent in, the form of man; to conform to human nature or use.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1210 Socrates..hath humanized as I may so say, Philosophy, and attributed it to humaine reason. 1614Earl Stirling Domes-day v. (R.), When humaniz'd our Saviour did remaine. 1756Burke Subl. & B. ii. v, Before the Christian religion had, as it were, humanized the idea of the Divinity. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. x. (1864) IX. 338 The cloister..must humanise itself that it may represent man. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 671 It is clear that the Fijians humanized their gods.
2. To make humane; to civilize, soften, refine; to imbue with gentleness or tenderness.
1647W. Browne tr. Gomberville's Polexander ii–iv. 235 The wilder people..were somewhat humaniz'd by our conversation. 1670Walton Lives ii. 132 My faithful Tears..shall flow To humanize the Flints on which I tread. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), To Humanize, to make gentle, tractable and familiar. 1790J. B. Moreton Mann. W. Ind. 164 If blacks were humanized, instructed in arts and sciences, husbandry and commerce. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. ii. 33 The Evangelical precepts..distinctly humanized the way in which war was carried on.
†3. intr. To act as a human being. Obs. rare.
1655tr. Gracian's Courtiers Orac. 163 By Divinizing one gets Respect; by Humanizing, Contempt.
4. intr. for pass. To become humanized, to grow humane.
a1790Franklin (Webster 1864), Humanizing by degrees, it [the law of nations] admitted slavery instead of death [as a punishment]. 1862M. Goodman Exper. Eng. Sister Mercy 28 Some few of them [boys] were observed to humanise considerably under the intercourse.
5. To treat (cow's milk) in order to make it more closely resemble human milk and suitable for consumption by infants.
1897Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. CXIII. 374 Dufour..describes a rather simple method of humanizing cow's milk. 1970Pharmaceutical Handbk. (Pharm. Soc. Gt. Brit.) 379 In ‘humanising’ cow's milk, extra cane sugar or glucose is added because human milk contains more lactose than cow's milk.
Hence ˈhumanizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1655[see 3]. 1816Southey Pilgr. Waterloo ii. xvii, The love of peace and humanizing art. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xxxi, A fresh centre of instruction, humanizing, disciplining..to hundreds of little savage spirits. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 145 Love..has exercised a humanizing if not a strengthening influence on the world. |