Anglicize
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become English in form or character.
Anglicise
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a variation of
Anglicize.
Example Sentences
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Part of his mission was to Anglicise the Indians by converting them to Christianity, but he died a year later aged about 39.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2015
They proceeded to Anglicise their relations, their relations' clothes, even, in time, their speech.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I afterwards thought it would be better to Anglicise it, and, strange to say, I actually found that there was a rule in the English language without an exception.
From Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
"Thady Molloy and Shawn Brady," called out the engineer, managing thoroughly to Anglicise the pronunciation of the names, though they were not Celtically composite to any great degree.
From Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope
Our own empire would be a ludicrous failure if it were any part of our ambition to Anglicise other races.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
