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anglicise

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style. 2 (context transitive English) To dub or translate into English. 3 (context transitive English) To become English.

WordNet
anglicise
  1. v. make English in appearance; "anglicize a French word" [syn: anglicize]

  2. make English; "She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London" [syn: anglicize]

Usage examples of "anglicise".

What would these divinities think of India, anglicised as it is to-day, with steamers whistling and scudding along the Ganges, frightening the gulls which float upon its surface, the turtles swarming along its banks, and the faithful dwelling upon its borders?

By dazzling glimpses the white, urbane, anglicised villas winked at them from among the trees, and the long beach trailed a golden ribbon along the lacy edge of the sea.

But interwoven with this anglicising tendency, which was also, by the bye, a Christianising tendency, was a strong disposition, derived from the Rousseau strand, to leave other peoples alone, to facilitate even the separation and autonomy of detached portions of our own peoples, to disintegrate finally into perfect, because lawless, individuals.

Helene, in the person of Nina Brun, an Anglicised French parlourmaid--a part which she fills to perfection--was to obtain wax impressions of the most valuable pieces and to make the exchange when the counterfeits reached her.