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)

1. (transitive) To convert to English (language or culture); 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

Related terms

• Anglification
• Englify

References

• “Anglify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• flaying