Anglicanize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To anglicize. transitive
"The Count resumed by observing that the Committee had done, and might still do, great good, but that we must not attempt to Anglicanize Greece. I replied that we rather wished to Americanize her."
- 2 To make Anglican. transitive
"A report which we strongly suspect has been manufactured by a mock-Orthodox Editor in New-York […] is going the rounds of the Calvinistic prints in town and country. The amount of it is, that about four hundred of the French Clergy have separated themselves from the Roman Catholic Church, and have determined to anglicanize themselves, by taking wives and thus living rather in imitation of a mis-named Reformation, than of the Apostles and their legitimate successors."
Example
More examples"The Count resumed by observing that the Committee had done, and might still do, great good, but that we must not attempt to Anglicanize Greece. I replied that we rather wished to Americanize her."
Etymology
From Anglican + -ize.