Anglify
English
Etymology
From Latin Anglus (“Englishman”) + -ify.
Verb
Anglify (third-person singular simple present Anglifies, present participle Anglifying, simple past and past participle Anglified)
- (transitive) To convert to English norms; to anglicise.
- 1751, Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.:
- Why should Pennsylvania […] become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?
- 1860, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology […]
- Englishmen speak to their servants in French, and the shops are all French; indeed I should think that Calais or Boulogne was much more Anglified
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Related terms
- Anglification
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Anglify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- flaying