\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.

\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.
         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.