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Hellenist|ˈhɛlɪnɪst|
[ad. Gr. Ἑλληνιστής a follower of the Greeks in language, etc., one who Hellenizes, f. Ἑλληνίζειν to Hellenize: see -ist.]
1. One who used the Greek language, though not a native Greek. Applied esp. to those Jews of the Dispersion who used the Greek language and were more or less affected by Greek influences.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 137 The Hebrewes and Hellenists often disagreed. 1653Hammond Annot. Acts vi. 1 (R.) These Jews understood Greek, and used the Greek Bible, and therefore are called Hellenists. 1879Farrar St. Paul vii. 125 It is to these Greek-speaking Jews that the term Hellenist..properly applies..It means one who ‘Græcises’ in language or mode of life..It is therefore..the..antithesis..to strict ‘Hebrews’. 1881N. T. (R. V.) Acts vi. 1 There arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews [marg. Hellenists] against the Hebrews.
attrib.1789Gibbon Autobiog. (1896) 141 The corrupt dialect of the Hellenist Jews.
2. One skilled in the Greek language and literature; a Greek scholar.
1680Dalgarno Didascolocophus 126 (T.) But if all this do not satisfy the critical Hellenist, then I must add [etc.]. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. i. iii. §3 In Italy..there were still professors of it [Greek] in the university; but no one Hellenist distinguishes this [17th] century. 1880Contemp. Rev. XXXVII. 479 An Oxford Hellenist (as we venture to call any person with considerable knowledge of Greek).
3. One of the Byzantine Greeks who contributed to the revival of classical learning in Europe in the 15th century.
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