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Frenchify, v.|ˈfrɛnʃɪfaɪ|
[f. French a. + -fy.]
1. trans. To make French in form or character, imbue with French qualities, render French-like.
1592Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 247 Or will you be Frenchefied with a loue locke downe to your shoulders? 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. viii. (1628) 281 Arnoldsonne was Frenchefied into Fitz-Arnold. 1741Richardson Pamela I. Let. to Editor 13 Reduce our Sterling Substance into an empty Shadow, or rather frenchify our English Solidity into Froth and Whip-syllabub. 1761Chron. in Ann. Reg. 125/2 They dressed him in a bag-wig..frenchified him up. 1852Macaulay in Life & Lett. (1883) II. 363 What a quantity of French words have I used! I suppose that the subject Frenchifies my style.
2. intr. To become French in ideas, manners, etc.; to have French sympathies.
1775J. Jekyll Corr. 19 Aug. (1894) 46 'Tis in these domesticated visits one Frenchifies most. 1799European Mag. XXXVI. 60 What astonishes me most is, that this custom of Frenchifying should be so prevalent among us. |