Crossword clues for anglicize
anglicize
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anglicize \An"gli*cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anglicized; p. pr. & vb. n. Anglicizing.] To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1710, with -ize + Medieval Latin Anglicus "of the English," from Angli "the Angles" (see Angle). Related: Anglicized; anglicizing.
Wiktionary
vb. (standard spelling of from=American spelling from2=Oxford British spelling lang=en anglicise)
WordNet
Usage examples of "anglicize".
People of his class christened their children with English names, or at least anglicized the Irish.
Perhaps it too sprang from the Anglicized half of Fausto II: for he wrote poetry.
The English Jew, who is often strictly orthodox but entirely anglicized in his habits, is less disliked than the European refugee who has probably not been near a synagogue for thirty years.
Her name was something very Anglicized, and Candle had met her at a dance.
In such a case the Anglicized name precedes the family name, such as Jerry Tang.
Creole French that she always used in her ceremonies, rather than the anglicized patois of his followers.
She then exhibited herself as an Anglicized matron, perfectly familiar with all the requirements, great and little, of her guests, and, when minutiae were once settled, capable of meeting ladies and gentlemen on terms of equality in her drawing-room or at her table, where she always presided.
If her words were older-fashioned, that is more provincial than his, at least her tone was less so, and her utterance was prettier than if, like him, she had aped an Anglicized mode of speech.
In many cases, a more Anglicized transliteration is used instead of the tlhIngan Hol transliterations preferred by linguists (e.
Leaving aside the problems which this genealogy presents to historians, a point to note in the present context is not so much the appearance of late British names in a supposedly 'Teutonic' royal house, as their appearance in a markedly anglicized form that must be due to their being borrowed as names, and to their accommodation like ordinary loan-words to English speech-habits.
Among its passengers it carried one Azamat Krim, Canadian-born son of an émigré, who, like Andrew Drake, had Anglicized his name—to Arthur Crimmins.
Andrew Drake, despite his Anglicized name, was also a Ukrainian, and a fanatic.
Among its passengers it carried one Azamat Krim, Canadian-born son of an ‚migr‚, who, like Andrew Drake, had Anglicized his name-to Arthur Crimmins.
Moreover, English is the chief lingua franca and nearly the whole of the Indian intelligentsia is deeply anglicized.
But, as you will find explained, in this tale the name is a 'translation' of the real Hobbit name, derived from a village (devoted to rope-making) anglicized as Gamwich (pron.