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Humanized

Humanize \Hu"man*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Humanizing.] [Cf. F. humaniser.]

  1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. [Also spelled humanise.]

    Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?
    --Addison.

  2. To give a human character or expression to. ``Humanized divinities.''
    --Caird.

  3. (Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

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humanized

vb. (en-past of: humanize)

Usage examples of "humanized".

The only real difference between a man born of a mother and father and a perfectly humanized machine would be the building material: living, nonliving.

Other people, they’ve got to make a humanized pig just because maybe they can.

The humanized automaton would be just as clever—but also just as unreliable, fallible, just as much a slave to emotional biases—as a man.

A moment later and that figure followed him, emerging into substantiality and shifting from an octopal ape form to that of my brother Mandor, humanized, wearing black as when last I had seen him, though the garments were fresh and of a slightly different cut, his white hair less tousled.

I stepped down over the empty row, moved to the right, touched Gilva's still humanized shoulder.

The only thing that even slightly humanized him was his overwhelming concern for horses.

The in tensely humanized dreaming body of the old seers drove them to look for answers that were equally per sonal, humanized.