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anglify
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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v.
assimilate (French Canada or French Canadians) to the customs and language of English-speaking Canada.
See: anglicize
Quotations
1828
Revolutionary principles and anti-British feelings are spreading . . . by means of the exertions of disguised Yankees and half-anglified Frenchmen.
1866
The darling project of his heart, was to anglify, but by means compulsory and distasteful to them, the French Canadian people. . . .