v. [f. SOUTHERN a.]
1. trans. To make southern in respect of language, form, character, etc.
1867. Hymns Virgin, Pref. p. x. Some of the poems bear traces of having been southernized from a Northern original.
1887. Athenæum, 15 Jan., 92/3. A copy, partially southernized in language, of a work originally written in pure northern dialect.
2. intr. To become southern in respect of quality or character (Cent. Dict., 1891).
Hence Southernized, Southernizing ppl. adjs.
1871. Skeat, in Joseph of Arimathie, p. xi. The southernizing tendencies of the scribe.
1873. Athenæum, 23 Aug., 243/2. A slightly more southernized copy of the Trinity MS.
1890. Gurnhill, Monogr. Gainsborough Par. Reg., 26. ‘Churchmaster’ is a southernized form of Kirk-master.
