Romanize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make Roman Catholic.
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(often lowercase) to make Roman in character.
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(often lowercase) to render in the Latin alphabet, especially a language traditionally written in a different system, as Chinese or Japanese.
verb (used without object)
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to conform to Roman Catholic doctrine and practices; to become Roman Catholic.
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(often lowercase) to follow Roman practices.
verb
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(tr) to impart a Roman Catholic character to (a ceremony, practice, etc)
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(intr) to be converted to Roman Catholicism
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(tr) to transcribe or transliterate (a language) into the Roman alphabet
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to make Roman in character, allegiance, style, etc
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Dr. Webster also defines Romanize, "To Latinize; to conform to Romish opinions."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
It is perhaps fanciful to suggest that we are now suffering the penalty of the failure of Rome to Romanize, that is to say, to civilize their Teutonic neighbours.
From The Unity of Civilization by Various
This enabled her, long afterward, to Romanize Germany and England in some degree, and as it were at second-hand, by the arms of Charlemagne and William.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
The attempt in the nineteenth century to Romanize our theories of liability involved a Romanized will-theory of contract.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
Returning home, he found the Roman governor, Quintilius Varus, making efforts to Romanize the German tribes near the Rhine.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
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