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- verb To
convert intoEnglish ; toanglicise .
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Examples
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The monasteries were destroyed; hence there were no vicars to supply the parish churches, which fell into ruin; the king endeavoured rather to Anglify than to
Is Ulster Right? Anonymous
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Perhaps they are often in part the descendants of those "Palatine boors" who Benjamin Franklin feared might "Germanize us before we can Anglify them."
The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines Benjamin P. Tyree 2010
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Perhaps they are often in part the descendants of those "Palatine boors" who Benjamin Franklin feared might "Germanize us before we can Anglify them."
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I never wanted to Anglify a little joke that Linnaeus himself perpetrated in naming a large but flaccid sea anemone Metridium senile.
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