v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] To make or render artificial. Hence Artificialized ppl. a., Artificializing vbl. sb.
1684. T. R., Amazem. Fut. Ages, 39. Every one having an artificialized natural Morion of his head.
1801. W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., XI. 290/2. The British school of gardening naturalizes art; the French artificializes nature.
1848. Mill, Pol. Econ., II. xiii. § 1. It has artificialized large portions of mankind.
1855. Kingsley, Glaucus (1878), 53. Athletic exercises are … becoming more and more artificialized and expensive.
1883. D. Wheeler, By-Ways of Lit., i. 22. Fine dressing and artificializing of the person.
