The Collaborative International Dictionary
English \Eng"lish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Englished; p. pr. & vb. n. Englishing.]
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To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation.
--Milton.Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing.
--T. L. K. Oliphant. (Billiards) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion. [U.S.]
Usage examples of "englished".
He cut the throttle, englished the bike upright with his psychokinesis, got it straightened out, began noodging the brakes, slowed, slowed, and finally stopped.
In most of our translations also of the Bible the word locusta is Englished a grasshopper, and thereunto (Leviticus xi.
I should have Englished that name of mine, it would have been more fitting, with more than half my blood Saxon — Godfrid of the Marsh for Godfrid de Marisco.