Sentence example with the word 'anglicize'

anglicize

Definition v. make English in appearance

Last update: July 17, 2015


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Conciliation was also tried with some success; plantation schemes were rejected in favour of an attempt to Anglicize the Irish; their chieftains were created earls and endowed with monastic lands; and so peaceful was Ireland in 1542 that the lord-deputy could send Irish kernes and gallowglasses to fight against the Scots.   [Please select]

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The knoll was the old Aramaic Golgotha--in Latin, Calvaria; anglicized, Calvary; translated, The Skull.   [Please select]

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To what one may call a continentalized vision the aspect of English life seems strange and entertaining; while an Anglicized perception finds, beyond the narrow channel, even greater matter for wonderment.   [Please select]

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A couplet, which, lingering still in the mouths of the people, warrants the old poetaster's conceit of it, and--dog-anglicized--runs thus: "Nor Czar nor Sultan made the conquest easy, The only weapon was a cartridge greasy."   [Please select]

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