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Scotticize, v.|ˈskɒtɪsaɪz| [f. late L. Scotticus (Scōticus) Scottish, Scotch (see Scotic) + -ize.] 1. trans. To imbue with Scottish ideas or characteristics.
1763Wilkes N. Briton No. 34 None but Scots or Jacobites or such English as are Scotticized, must expect favour or preferment under him. 1859Masson Brit. Novelists iii. 204 He [Scott] has Scotticized European literature. 2. To give a Scottish form to (a foreign word); to turn (a work) into Scottish dialect.
1874Small Douglas' Wks. I. Pref. 165 He accordingly, in his version of Virgil, does not scruple to Scotticise a Latin word. 1901Law N.T. in Scots (S.T.S.) Introd. 15 A Scotticised transcript of it was added..at the end of the volume.
Add: Hence ˌScotticiˈzation n., the action or process of making Scottish.
1968–9Ethnologia Europaea II.–III. 118 The land names suggest changes due largely to scotticisation of language and forms of land holding and land use. 1986W. Kay Scots (1988) 62 His text has a similar degree of anglicisation of style or scotticisation of English as his predecessor's. |