Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ humaniores, or, in English, the humanities, . . . by way of opposition to the literæ divinæ, or divinity. G. P. Marsh.
HUMANIZATION
Hu*man`i*za"tion, n.
Defn: The act of humanizing. M. Arnold.
HUMANIZE
Hu"man*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humanized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Humanizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. humaniser.]
1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion Addison.
2. To give a human character or expression to. "Humanized divinities." Caird.
3. (Med.)
Defn: To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
HUMANIZE
Hu"man*ize, v. i.
Defn: To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Franklin.