Saxonizev.
/ˈsaksənʌɪz/ 1. transitive. To make Saxon or Anglo-Saxon.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] > into particular language
to make EnglishOE
Englisha1450
Latin1563
Latinize1589
Germanize1605
Scottish1623
Englify1688
anglicize1711
romance1796
Saxonize1804
Scotticize1809
Syriacize1863
French1868
Sanskritize1881
the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ancient Germanic peoples > [verb (transitive)] > Saxon
Saxonize1861
1804 W. Mitford Inq. Princ. Harmony Lang. (ed. 2) 405 The rest, French, Latin, and Greek, is little more than a magazine of words; rarely showing, except as in declension, comparison, or conjugation, they have been Saxonized, any relation to the rest of the speech.
1843 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. (1876) III. 91 Saint Romualdo, (or Rumwald, as our ancestors saxonised the name).
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. vi. 55 Other invaders..poured in..till the island was Saxonized.
2. intransitive. To become Saxon (in quot. 1834, of Saxony).
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [verb (intransitive)] > Saxon
Saxonize1834
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 440/1 Arthur is packed off to Saxonise at Weimar, to sigh at the feet of Goethe's handsome daughter-in-law.
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ˈSaxonized adj.
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1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 642 The Saxonized Britons of Wiltshire.
ˈSaxonizing n.
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1867 J. C. Shairp Sketches (1887) 67 The decisive Saxonising of Scotland that took place under Margaret.
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