Word of the Day: ENGLIFY

ETYMOLOGY
from Engl- (in English) + ‑ify 

EXAMPLE
“… This is the true shape of it, concerning which I have formerly written, chap. 10. numb. 15, 16. This is by some termed a Frog seiant, A. a Fesse between three of them Vert, is the coat of Paddock, a breviation from Ap Addock, a Welsh name Englified, as is very usual with them when they come to inhabit amongst the English, as Iohn ap Richard to be called Iohn Pritchard, William ap Hugh, to be called William Pugh, and the like. …”

From: The Academy of Armory, or, A storehouse of armory and blazon containing the several variety of created beings, and how born in coats of arms, both foreign and domestick: with the instruments used in all trades and sciences, together with their their terms of art
By Randle Holme, 1688

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