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Word Meanings - ANGLICIZATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.

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  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • ANGLICIZE
    To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • ENGLISHWOMAN
    Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • CHARACTERISM
    A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
  • ANGLICIZATION
    The act of anglicizing, or making English in character.
  • MAKE
    A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
  • MAKED
    Made. Chaucer.
  • MAKE-UP
    The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • MAKEWEIGHT
    That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
  • CHARACTERIZE
    1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
  • MAKE-BELIEVE
    A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
  • MAKARON
    See 2
  • MAKING-UP
    1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof. 2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
  • MAKI
    A lemur. See Lemur.
  • MAKE-BELIEF
    A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
  • CHARACTERISTICALLY
    In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • BOOTMAKER
    One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
  • BRICKMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
  • SAILMAKER
    One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
  • WIDOW-MAKER
    One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
  • MATCHMAKER
    1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
  • HAYMAKING
    The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
  • MISCHARACTERIZE
    To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
  • MERRYMAKING
    Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
  • GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
    One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
  • VLISSMAKI
    The diadem indris. See Indris.

 

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