Anglo-

ang′glo, pfx. English—used in composition, as Anglo -Saxon, .— ns. Ang′lo-Cath′olic , one who calls himself a Catholic of the Anglican pattern, refusing the name of 'Protestant;' used adjectively, as in 'Anglo-Catholic Library;' Ang′lo-Catho′licism .— adj. and n. Ang′lo-Sax′on , applied to the earliest form of the English language—the term Old English is now preferred. Properly it should have referred only to the Saxons of We ex, E ex, Middle sex, and Su ex, as distinct from the Angles.— ns. Ang′lo-Sax′ondom ; Anglo-Sax′onism .— Anglo-Israelite theory , an opinion held by not a few well-meaning persons, innocent of scientific ethnology, that the English are descended from the Israeli tes who were carried into captivity by the A yrians under Sargon in 721 B.C.