DCHP-3

anglicize

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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v.

assimilate (French Canada or French Canadians) to the customs and language of English-speaking Canada.

Quotations

1838
That the Lower Province must be anglicised is certain; and if it be not done now, peacably and with deliberation, it will hereafter be done with confusion and bloodshed.
1916
Some of his [Laurier's] French-Canadian disciples . . . complain that he has Anglicised himself too much.