Humanize /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Humanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Humanizing

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?

2. To give a human character or expression to.
3. To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (Med.)

1. 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.