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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To convert into English; to anglicize.
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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
“What about Gordon Brown's neo-colonial campaign to anglify the world with "God's gift to the world"?”
“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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