humanize : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: humanize	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for humanize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
humanize v make more humane; "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city" Synonym(s): humanize, humanise Antonym(s): dehumanise, dehumanize
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Humanize \Hu"manize\, 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. Was it the business of magic to humanize* our natures with compassion? --Addison. 2. To give a human character or expression to. [bd]Humanized divinities.[b8] --Caird. 3. (Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Humanize \Hu"man*ize\, v. i. To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. --Franklin.