v. [f. LINGUAL a. + -IZE.] trans. To make lingual.
1875. F. Hall, in Nation, XX. 116/2. The letters d, n, and t, where lingual, were, we surmise, first dentalized, so as to conform to their character everywhere on the Continent, and these letters on reaching England, where there are no vernacular dentals, were, in turn, lingualized.
1879. Whitney, Sanskrit Gram., 59. The final i or u of a preposition or other like prefix ordinarily lingualizes the initial s of the root to which it is prefixed.
