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  • verb To convert into English; to anglicise.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 2010

  • I never wanted to Anglify a little joke that Linnaeus himself perpetrated in naming a large but flaccid sea anemone Metridium senile.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1 1984

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