[f. ANGLICIZE: see -ISM.]
1. Anglicized language, such as the introduction of English idiom into a sentence in another language; hence, a peculiarity of the English language, an idiom specially English.
1642. Howell, For. Trav. (Arb.), 65. An odde kind of Anglicisme … as to say Your Boores of Holland, Sir; Your Iesuites of Spaine, Sir.
1679. Dryden, Tr. & Cr., Ep. Ded. Wks. 1725, V. 11. False Grammar, and Nonsense couch’d beneath that specious Name of Anglicisme.
1699. Bentley, Phal., § xi. 318. Dr. B. has abundance of pure Anglicisms in his Latin.
1755. T. Croker, Ariosto’s Orl. Fur., Pref. 8. Low familiar anglicism, quite inconsistent with the dignity of the divine original.
1839. Hallam, Hist. Lit., IV. IV. vii. § 37. 319. The anglicism of terminating the sentence with a preposition.
† 2. An English characteristic or fashion. Obs.
1787. Beckford, Italy, II. 90. The short jacket of the postilion and other anglicisms of the equipage.
3. English political principles or methods of administration.
1873. Gladstone, in Daily News, 20 Aug., 2/2. The most unfortunate policy which sent Englishmen into the country for every purpose of civil as well as of religious life … to propagate what I may call Anglicism in the teeth of the feelings of the country. Ibid. (1878), in N. Amer. Rev., CXXVII. 185. All those elements of political Anglicism which give to aristocracy in this country a position only second in strength to that of freedom.
