单词 | anglicize |
释义 | anglicizev. 1. a. transitive. To make English (or British) in character. Cf. de-anglicize v. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > make English [verb (transitive)] Anglize1615 Anglify1625 anglicize1710 Englishify1855 Anglicify1859 1710 S. Sewall Let.-bk. (1886) I. 401 The best thing we can do for our Indians is to Anglicize them. 1795 S. T. Coleridge Plot Discovered 47 Let me be pardoned, if the actions are too much anglicized. 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous iv, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 295 William Longlegs, having refused, on any terms, to become Anglocised. 1890 Murray's Mag. Apr. 452 The admixture tends to Anglicize the Dutch rather than to Dutchify the English. 1902 Times 20 Oct. 5/6 To develop in South Africa is to Anglicize and to further the greatest of Imperial interests. 1989 A. Aird 1990 Good Pub Guide 958/2 A few stools by serving-counter in bar more restauranty than British pubs—in spite of the prints, signs and so forth trying to anglicise it. 2000 Early Amer. Lit. 1 Jan. 51 The drive to monarchize and Anglicize the new government. b. intransitive with reflexive meaning. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > become English [verb (intransitive)] anglicize1837 1837 New Monthly Mag. 50 28/2 There seems to be something prodigiously unlucky in the French attempts to Anglicize. 1857 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1858) I. ix. 30 Are they allowed to Anglicise if they like, as the Scottish Highlanders were? 1882 W. D. Howells in Longman's Mag. 1 60 England Americanises in some respects, in some respects America Anglicises. 2006 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 5 Jan. (Summer Age section) 8 Southern European immigrants resorted to visual puns to accommodate Australia's urge to anglicise. 2. transitive. To borrow or render (a word, phrase, etc.) into English; = English v.; (also) intransitive to coin an English word by borrowing from another language (rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] > into particular language to make EnglishOE Englisha1450 Latin1563 Latinize1589 Germanize1605 Scottish1623 Englify1688 anglicize1711 romance1796 Saxonize1804 Scotticize1809 Syriacize1863 French1868 Sanskritize1881 1711 J. Gale Refl. Wall's Hist. Infant-baptism 135 At present we content our selves with pouring Water on the Head, which in Greek is call'd περίχʊσις, that is, Perichysm, if I may so anglicise, but not Baptism. 1748 T. Edwards Canons Crit. (1758) 275 In all Greek words anglicised, as System, Hypocrite, [etc.]. 1791 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. at Bucolick From the tendency we have to remove the accent to the beginning of such Latin words, as we Anglicize by dropping the last syllable, we sometimes hear this word improperly accented on the first syllable. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iv. 386 The glaring affectation of anglicising Latin words. 1925 E. Sergent et al. in Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 18 384 We ask our British colleagues to..consider whether it is possible to give currency to the verb ‘to premunize’ and to Anglicize the word ‘premunition’. 1963 P. H. Davis & V. H. Heywood Princ. Angiosperm Taxon. ix. 317 The second procedure involves the drawing of Isopsepheren, a term which we can anglicise to isochars. 2007 Preston (Austral.) Leader (Nexis) 18 July 1 Migrants from Middle Eastern backgrounds are under pressure to anglicise their names to get job interviews. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1710 |
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