v. Obs. Also indenize. [altered form of ENDENIZEN, assimilated to verbs in -ize.]
1. trans. To make a denizen or citizen of; to naturalize, enfranchise. Also transf. and fig.
1598. Florio, Patriare, to endenize, or enfranchise into a countrie.
1603. Daniel, Def. Rhime (1717), 7. Every language hath her proper Number or Measure … which Custom … doth indenize and make natural.
1614. Bargrave (1615), Serm., B iij b. Dauid made hast to be indenized, and possessed of the Kingdome of Heauen.
1687. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), I. 404. Several French … are lately gott out of France … and the King hath indenized several of them.
2. To remove into another order of being; to change into a superhuman or supersensuous form, and so to ‘spirit away,’ to ‘translate.’ Hence, to metamorphose.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 498. Æneas was not to bee found; some said he was indenized.
1633. J. Fisher, True Trojans, II. iii. in Hazl., Dodsley, XII. 472. The perverse and peevish Are next indeniz’d into wrinkled apes.
Hence Endenized ppl. a., Endenizing vbl. sb.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. vii. 14. What choice, selected, and endenized Hearbes, Plants, Fruits and Physicall Simples be implanted and bestowed.
1643. W. Burton, trans. Alstedius’ Beloved City, To Rdr. 2. The generall welcome and long entertainment, which the other learned workes of this same Authour have had in our Schooles … seemed to me not to deny this piece an endenizing, or freedome.
