v. assimilate (French Canada or French Canadians) to the customs and language of English-speaking Canada.
See also: anglicize
- 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. . . .