Frenchise

English

Verb

Frenchise (third-person singular simple present Frenchises, present participle Frenchising, simple past and past participle Frenchised)

1. Alternative form of Frenchize
   • 1742 October, “Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Political Club”, in London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, page 474:

     These Advantages cannot now, it is true, be recoverd: An Emperor of Germany is now chosen, I shall not say legally chosen, by the Influence of France; the Empire is now full of French or Frenchised Armies; and the Queen of Hungary has been stript of a great Part of her Father's Dominions.

   • 1811, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England:

     That the bishop not being in the secret had acted with reserve and caution, and would do nothing without the queen's special commands; whereas the earl of Strafford not only was forward to venture and undertake any thing, as he expresses himself in one of his letters, to be the tool of a Frenchised ministry; but in many instances had gone beyond his instructions, and advised the most pernicious measures.

   • 1888, John Chester, Ruth, the Christian Scientist: Or, The New Hygeia, page 214:

     “Sacristie!" exclaimed Mr. Dupont, for even his profanity had become Frenchised, “what has happened?”

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