v. [f. L. Anglic-us English + -IZE.]
1. To make English in form or character; to english.
a. 1757. T. Edwards, Can. Crit. (1758), 275 (T.). In all Greek words anglicised as System, Hypocrite, Hypothesis, and the like.
1795. Coleridge, Plot Discovered, 47. Let me be pardoned, if the actions are too much anglicized.
1831. Scott, Cast. Dang., iv. William Longlegs, having refused, on any terms, to become Anglocised.
1837. Hallam, Hist. Lit., I. 275. The glaring affectation of anglicising Latin words.
2. intr. (refl. pron. omitted.) rare.
1857. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt. Part., I. ix. 30. Are they allowed to Anglicise if they like, as the Scottish Highlanders were?
1882. Howells, in Longm. Mag., I. 60. England Americanises in some respects, in some respects America Anglicises.
