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Saxonize, v.|ˈsæksənaɪz|
[f. Saxon + -ize.]
1. trans. To make Saxon or Anglo-Saxon.
1804Mitford Inquiry 405 The rest, French, Latin, and Greek, is little more than a magazine of words; rarely showing, except as in declension, comparison, or conjugation, they have been Saxonized, any relation to the rest of the speech. 1843Wordsw. Prose Wks. (1876) III. 91 Saint Romualdo, (or Rumwald, as our ancestors saxonised the name). 1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. vi. 55 Other invaders..poured in..till the island was Saxonized.
2. intr. To become Saxon (in quot., of Saxony).
1834Tait's Mag. I. 440/1 Arthur is packed off to Saxonise at Weimar, to sigh at the feet of Goethe's handsome daughter-in-law.
Hence ˈSaxonized ppl. a., ˈSaxonizing vbl. n.
1867Shairp Sketches (1887) 67 The decisive Saxonising of Scotland that took place under Margaret. 1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 642 The Saxonized Britons of Wiltshire. |