v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]
1. intr. To grow or become foreign; to take after, or display a resemblance to, foreign types.
c. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Warwick (1662), 129, marg. Our Countryman Pits did foranize with long living beyond the Seas.
1860. Ecclesiologist, XXI. June, 179. The style of course foreignizes.
2. trans. To render foreign; to refashion after foreign models; to give a foreign air to.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., V. April, 372/2. Instructors in high places, who have sought by every means in their power to liberalise, to foreignise our people.
1861. G. Meredith, E. Harrington, I. iii. 37. The Countess was immensely admired, and though her sisters said that she was ‘foreignised’ over-much, they clung to her desperately.
1894. The Nation (N.Y.), 17 May, LVIII. 360/3. We needlessly foreignize our tongue by multiplying the single f, l, and v endings—e. g., litl, ruf (rough), hav—which are repugnant to the English eye.
