Greekize

English Alternative forms en Greekise Etymology From en Greek ize. Verb To make Greek or Greek-like; en 1865 Amenities of Literature Isaac Disraeli The earliest writers of France had modelled their taste by the Greek: Jodelle, Ronsard, Du Bartas, and others, imbued with Attic literature, Greekized the French idiom by their compounds, their novel terms, and their sonorous periphrases. en 1868 A Study of the Scriptures: Parts I & II Samuel Hobart Winkley 28 Prideaux says that Menelaus was compelled to go a second time to Antioch before obtaining the high-priesthood, on account of the opposition at Jerusalem ; and that this last time he consented to use his office to Greekize the Jews. en 1939 Dusty measure, a record of troubled times Sir Thomas Andrew Alexander Montgomery-Cuninghame 177 The Helladists, in whose ranks was the whole army, wished to consolidate and "Greekize" the regions which they had already won, without attempting to conquer more before the country was ready to digest it. en 1973 Why Americans retire abroad Edward Fischer 159 In the Greek ghettos he tended to "Greekize" English words. To behave and speak like a Greek. en 2000 The Pope's archaeologist: the life and times of Carlo Fea Ronald T. Ridley 215 'Greekize' as much as you like, Fea concluded; become a new Pausanias, Plutarch or Strabo. en 2015 Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?': A Reader's Guide Rex Butler We start perhaps with their point, which can now seem so much like a form of contemporary feminism or post-colonialism, that behind any 'eutrality' or 'universality' of opinion there is always a highly culturally and historically determined context: 'But does nto the Husserlian transcendental subject hide European man whose privilege it is constantly to 'Europeanize', as the Greeks 'Greekized', that is to say, to go beyond the linmits of other cultures that are preserved as psychosocial types?' en 2019 Rome, Global Dreams, and the International Origins of an Empire Sarah Davies In the Zenon archive of papyri from third century Egypt, a camel-driver complains of not receiving regular payment, presumably because, as he states, “I am a barbarian,” and, “I do not know how to 'Greekize'/behave-and-speak-like-a-Greek (hellēnizein). Synonyms To make Greek en Greekify, en Hellenize To behave like a Greek en Hellenize