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Medism|ˈmiːdɪz(ə)m|
[ad. L. mēdismus, Gr. µηδισµός, f. µηδίζειν to medize.]
Gr. Hist. a. Sympathy with the ‘Medes’: used to describe the attitude of those Greeks in the 6th and 5th c. b.c. who were said to favour unpatriotically the interests of the Persians. b. A word or idiom belonging to the language of the Medes.
1849Grote Greece ii. xliv. V. 359 Medism (or treacherous correspondence with the Persians). 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel i. 34 Chaldaisms, Medisms, Persisms could, accordingly, be nothing strange in the Hebrew portion of his book. |