释义 |
Semitize, v.|ˈsɛmɪtaɪz| Also † Semetize. [f. Semite + -ize.] trans. To render Semitic in character, language, or religion.
1869Baldwin Preh. Nations iv. (1877) 159 The language of Phoenicia is said to have been Semetized. 1880Cheyne Isa. xx. I. 118 The name is..therefore non-Semitic, but the Assyrians..Semitised it into Sarru-kinu. 1895Athenæum 6 Apr. 447/3 We have a school who would roundly semitize the whole Greek civilization. Hence ˈSemitized ppl. a.; ˈSemitizing ppl. a. Also Semitiˈzation, the action of the verb.
1885W. R. Smith in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 756/1 [The Philistines] were a Semitic or at least a thoroughly Semitized people. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 656/1 The partial Semitization of the southern districts of Abyssinia. 1884Cheyne Isa. xix. (ed. 3) I. 119 The political history of Palestine assisted this Semitising process. |