modern i zati on

[English moderniz ( e ); -ation.] The act of modernizing; that which is modernized; a modernism. modern-ize, v . t . [English modern ; -ize .] To make modern; to give a modern cast, character, or appearance to; to conform to modern style, ideas, fashions, or ways; to adapt to modern persons or times. "A jumble with Latin words modernized." Cambridge: The Scribleríad , bk. ii. modern-iz-er, subst . [Eng. moderniz (e); -er .] One who modernizes. "No unsucce ful modernizer of the Latin satirists."Wake field: Memoirs , p. 75. modern-lỹ, adv. [English modern; -ly.] In modern times.