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Romanize

Romanize \Ro"man*ize\, v. i.

  1. To use Latin words and idioms. ``Apishly Romanizing.''
    --Milton.

  2. To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech.

Romanize

Romanize \Ro"man*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Romanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Romanizing.]

  1. To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms. [R.]
    --Dryden.

  2. To convert to the Roman Catholic religion.

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romanize

alt. 1 To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet. 2 (context historical English) To bring under the authority or influence of Rome. 3 To make Roman or Roman Catholic in disposition. 4 To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms. vb. 1 To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet. 2 (context historical English) To bring under the authority or influence of Rome. 3 To make Roman or Roman Catholic in disposition. 4 To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms.

Usage examples of "romanize".

Nothing can stand before the Christian and Romanized nations, and all pagandom and Mohammedom combined are too weak to resist their onward march.

The Cimbri, united once more into a single vast mass, moved westward upstream along the north bank of the Padus, heading for the more Romanized regions around the big town of Placentia.

Arverni, the Aedui became less warlike, steadily more Romanized, and enjoyed Roman patronage.

South of the river, the people and towns were heavily Romanized, many of them possessing the Latin Rights.

South of the river the people and towns were heavily Romanized, many of them possessing the Latin Rights.

Gaul-across-the-Alps-that is, Gaul west of the Italian Alps-was roughly divided into two parts: Gallia Comata or Long-haired Gaul, neither Hellenized nor Romanized, and a coastal strip with a bulging extension up the valley of the river Rhodanus which was known as The Province, and both Hellenized as well as Romanized.

Rome conquered and fully Romanized all the tribes of Gaul, it would fall to the Germans.

A year later Suetonius and the governor of the colony decided that as the Sarci had now been quiet for nearly five years, and as Caius reported that their young chief seemed to have become thoroughly Romanized, he was permitted to return to his tribe.

The Cimbri, united once more into a single vast mass, moved westward upstream along the north bank of the Padus, heading for the more Romanized regions around the big town of Placentia.

The Dux Bellorum put heels to his horse's gleaming flanks and the entire body of Romanized cavalry broke into a fast canter.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a Romanized Greek rhetorician of the Augustan Age, stated frankly that he wrote his Archæ.