\Nat"u*ral*ize\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Naturalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Naturalizing}.] [Cf. F.
naturaliser. See {Natural}.]
1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or
   citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner
   into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a
   native subject.
3. To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to
   make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
4. To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to
   cause to grow as under natural conditions.
         Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might
         yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
                                               --Hawthorne.

\Nat"u*ral*ize\, v. i.
1. To become as if native.
2. To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the
   exclusion of the supernatural.
         Infected by this naturalizing tendency. --H.
                                               Bushnell.