0 present participle of naturalize
1 to make someone a legal citizen of a country that they were not born in:
This attention to the garden's artifice constantly threatens to disrupt the texts' "naturalizing" project, repoliticizing the garden and women's activities therein.
Changes in architectural patterns both reflect cultural change and contributed to naturalizing new social orders.
Yet their larger meaning and significance (and that of their counterparts, naturalizing images), is not at all clear.
Unless and until the problem of naturalizing semantics is solved, a defense of physicalism, in particular, must rely heavily on plausibility considerations.
The editors characterize their approach as "radical historicism," which they contrast to "naturalizing" accounts of the discipline's history.
Here the linkage is indexical and naturalizing, because it is mediated by a real causal linkage (dust).
It should be noted, however, that we do not share his goal of naturalizing legal theory.
The effectiveness of metaphors both naturalizing and humanizing relies on the existence of common assumptions about the object of comparison.
