† denizev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To make (a person) a denizen.
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the world > people > nations > national of a country > [verb (transitive)] > adopt or naturalize
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free-denize1577
matriculate1579
denizate1604
free-denizen1609
nationalize1809
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus i. xvii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 242 Whiche thinges when this free denized Cubricus, had gotten.
1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Cj If he be not denized, the laws can not abide him to be mayster of one foot of ground.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 65 Sundry of those there now inhabiting, are lately denized Cornish.
1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. v. 181 If a foreign Lady..marry an English man and she herself be not denized, she is barred all privileges and Titles due to her husband.
2. figurative. To admit into recognized use (as a word, a custom, etc.); to naturalize.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > naturalize
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naturalize1593
endenize1598
inhousehold1611
domesticate1750
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > like or sympathize with other nations [verb (transitive)] > admit foreign words, beliefs, etc.
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1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 2v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Irish language was free dennized in ye English pale.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 6 This secrete is as yet merely French, but it had beene long since either denized or made English if, etc.
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