Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Barbarize \Bar"ba*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Barbarized}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Barbarizing}.]
   1. To become barbarous.

            The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the
            time of Trajan.                       --De Quincey.

   2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.

            The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against
            the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored
            Anglicisms.                           --Milton.