Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make English; Anglicize; especially, to adopt into the English language and make a part of it: as, to
Anglify French words, that is, to give them an English form in orthography, inflection, or pronunciation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To convert into English; to anglicize.
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Examples
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He only designed to "anglify" the French-Canadians by compulsion.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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What about Gordon Brown's neo-colonial campaign to anglify the world with "God's gift to the world"?
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Nothing will have a greater tendency to anglify them, than illuminating their underftandings, when they will difcern the advantages refulting from the mildnefs of a Britiili government.
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