naturalizedadj.
/ˈnatʃ(ə)rəlʌɪzd/, /ˈnatʃ(ə)rl̩ʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈnætʃ(ə)rəˌlaɪzd/ 1. Of a foreigner or immigrant: admitted to the rights or privileges of a native citizen or subject; taken to be a native by virtue of (long) residence. Also in extended use.Sometimes qualifying the original, and sometimes the acquired, designation.
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the world > people > nations > national of a country > [adjective] > naturalized
free-denized1577
naturalized1590
the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [adjective] > founding or instituting > settled or established
rootfastlOE
stablec1290
institutec1325
sad1340
firmc1374
rooteda1393
stabledc1400
substantialc1449
well-foundeda1450
surec1475
standing1549
afloat1551
well-established1559
steadyc1571
naturalized1590
erected1603
established1642
instituted1647
settled1649
riveted1652
radicate1656
inrooted1660
institute1668
statuminated1674
planted1685
stablished1709
deep-seated1741
founded1771
set-up1856
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [adjective] > original inhabitant > given status or rights of
naturalized1590
society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [adjective] > having rights of citizen > admitted to rights of native
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1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H8 Naturalized Turks and stout Bythinians.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 69 The Country People and naturalized Portugals live to a good Old Age.
1753 Scots Mag. June 270/2 Naturalized Jews claiming the privileges of Englishmen.
1775 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (ed. 2) I. 112 Spain having learned the art..from their naturalised guests the Arabians.
1817 J. Keats Lett. in Wks. (1889) III. 74 We sometimes skim into a bed of rushes, and there become naturalized river-folks.
1833 C. F. Hoffman Let. 26 Dec. in Winter in West (1835) I. 210 The genuine wolverine, or naturalized Michiganian.
a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiv. 141 The names of Sir Joseph Williamson.., a born Englishman, and of Portland, a naturalised Englishman.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 91/2 The Mohammedans [in Sind] may be divided into two great bodies—the Sindis proper and the naturalized Sindis. The Sindi proper is a descendant of the original Hindu.
1936 Discovery Sept. 264/1 Sir Henry was born a native of the United States, but became a naturalized British subject in 1910.
1965 Malcolm X Autobiogr. (1968) xv. 373 But how many German-born naturalized Americans were herded behind barbed wire?
1997 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 69 162 Mitterand published articles in 1936–7 in which naturalized Jews were mocked.
2001 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 95 180 Born in Israel, Baruch Ivcher Bronstein became a naturalized Peruvian citizen in 1984.
2. † a. Firmly fixed, innate. Obsolete. rare.
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1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 243 'Tis late, if ever, that we discover our so Confirm'd and so Naturalized Mistake.
b. Of a language, word, idea, practice, etc.: introduced or adopted into a country, or into common or habitual use; firmly established.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [adjective] > established by custom of society or group
customary1569
naturalized1806
use-established1897
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [adjective] > of foreign words, beliefs, etc.: admitted
domesticateda1639
naturalized1806
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > accustomed, used, or wont > by adaptation to circumstances > naturalized
domesticateda1639
naturalized1806
1806 R. Heber Jrnl. Apr. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. vii. 245 ‘Canaille’ has become a naturalized word in Russia.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) i. 34 That vapid, half naturalized term ‘belles-lettres,’ which has had some currency as a substitute for the term ‘literature’.
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. vi. 520 The native language, or rather the naturalised Latin, reasserted its independence.
1883 Harper's Mag. June 64/2 The black-wood furniture of Bombay is a naturalized importation.
1949 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 12 117 It is probable that ǰangšu is a ‘naturalized’ word which was borrowed from Chinese at an earlier period.
1991 Women: Cultural Rev. 49 Those apparently naturalised representations of events and situations relating to race..which have racist premises and propositions inscribed in them.
3. Of a plant or animal: having become established though not native; introduced, but growing or living and reproducing as if native.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [adjective] > naturalized
naturalized1796
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 336 See E. bot. 63, where it is first adopted as a naturalized plant.
1811 1st Rep. Merino Soc. 52 This kind cannot be perfectly produced but by naturalized sheep of the pure race.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iv. 115 These naturalised plants are of a highly diversified nature.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 84/1 A naturalised animal or plant..must be able to withstand all the vicissitudes of the seasons in its new home.
1926 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica V. 142 Musk Ochra, Musk Seed, Wild Ochra. Naturalized and cultivated.
1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 54 Key lime, a small, spiny naturalized citrus, is common on the Keys.
1991 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) Jan. 21 The sedums spectabile, acre (a nasty, spreading, naturalised plant), kamtschaticum, and spurium are the common favourites.
4. Affected by, or according to, philosophical or ethical naturalism.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > kinds of religions > [adjective] > natural
naturalist1830
naturalistic1838
naturalized1858
vegetation1878
pre-animistic1891
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia 6 Naturalized faith preserves the scattered dust to be combined anew.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia iii. vi. 305 Natural men in all ages..attain only to a belief in a naturalized spirit-world.
1998 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 104 885 Durkheim's epistemology provides a ‘naturalized’ theory of the categories in the sense of an empirically defeasible account.
5. Of a musical note: made natural (natural adj. 13). rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adjective] > natural
natural1721
naturalized1880
1880 in B. Grove Dict. Music II. 448/1 A naturalised note is always a white key on the pianoforte or organ, unless it be combined with a sharp or flat.
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naturalized epistemology n. Philosophy a programme of epistemology, put forward by W. V. Quine, which studies the formation of knowledge as a natural phenomenon rather than as a rational process, and makes use of empirical psychology and the history of science.
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1969 W. V. Quine Ontological Relativity & other Ess. iii. 69 (heading) Epistemology Naturalized.]
1975 Philos. Rev. 84 387 The line of some exponents of ‘naturalized epistemology’ that all we can do as philosophers is codify ‘natural’ practice.
1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 40 564 Hookway..questions whether Quine's naturalized epistemology really is epistemology and whether Quine's commitment to empiricism undercuts his commitment to realism.
2000 G. M. Edelman & G. Tononi Universe of Consciousness xvii. 216 Naturalized epistemology necessarily stops..at the stimulation of receptor sheets—the retina, the skin, the taste buds—and while it includes the analysis of language, it leaves the inner workings of the body and brain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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