acclimatise, acclimatize

t. [Fr. acclimater.] [ACCLIMATE.] To produce such a change in the constitution of a human being, one of the inferior animals, or a plant, as to adapt it to endure the climate of a country not its own. in the case of some few plants of their becoming, to a certain extent, naturally be bituated to different tem Temperatures, or becoming acclimatised." -Darwin: Origin of Species , ch. i, 1, p. 140. Sometimes to is placed before the climate to which the constitution is adapted: "These men are so thoroughly acclimatized to their cold and lofty abode."-Darwin: Descent of Man, vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. iv. ăc-cli-ma-tīșed, ăc-cli-ma-tīzed, pa . par. & a. [ACCLIMATISE, ACCLIMATIZE.] ăc-cli-ma-tī-şing, ăc-cli-ma-ti-zăng, pr. par. [ACCLIMATISE, ACCLIMATIZE.] ăc-cli-ma-tīze, v . t . [ACCLIMATISE.]