Hibernicize

American

[hahy-bur-nuh-sahyz] / haɪˈbɜr nəˌsaɪz /

especially British, Hibernicise

verb (used with object)

Hibernicized, Hibernicizing

to make Irish in character.

Etymology

Origin of Hibernicize

1805–15; < Medieval Latin Hibernic ( us ) ( see Hibernicism) + -ize

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Hibernicize

But Shakspeare unfortunately rhymes on with man, in which case we must either give the one word the Scotch pronunciation of mon, or Hibernicize the other into ahn.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

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