单词 | graecize |
释义 | GraecizeGrecizev. 1. transitive. To assimilate to what is Greek; to give a Greek cast, character, or form to. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [verb (transitive)] Grecanize1611 Graecize1702 Hellenize1728 Greekize1800 Hellenicize1852 Grecianize1884 1702 J. Willes Disc. I 3 in R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Wks. Josephus endeavour'd to Grecise and Shape the History of the Jews as like as he could to those of the Greeks and Romans. 1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 200 (note) This word, as usual, they Græcised. 1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice III. iv. 194 Whatever is..in any way Grecized or Romanized. 1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome vii. 390 Hilderic..succeeded to the throne without dispute, though entirely Grecized by education and long residence in Constantinople. 1880 T. Hodgkin Italy & her Invaders II. ii. ii. 81 (note) His habit of Grecising the names of undoubted Huns. 2. intransitive. a. To favour the cause of the Greeks. rare. ΚΠ 1840 Blackwood's Mag. 47 646 To Graecize or not to Graecize had become a test of patriotic feeling. b. To become Greek-like; to adopt Greek expressions, idioms, modes of life, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [verb (intransitive)] Grecanize1611 to Grecianize it1611 Hellenize1614 Graecize1879 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. ii. vii. 126 One who ‘Græcises’ in language or mode of life. 1892 Guardian 18 May 743/3 The MS. quite certainly does not Latinise but Graecises. Derivatives ˈGraecized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [adjective] Grecana1400 Greekc1400 Gregion1513 Greekisha1568 Grecian1577 Grecanic1601 pan-Ionian1613 Hellenic1644 Grecanical1678 Hellenian1740 Helladian1773 Helladic1779 Greek-like1847 Panhellenic1849 pan-Ionic1855 Graecized1860 Greekesquea1878 1860 C. J. Ellicott Hist. Lect. Life Our Lord vii. 316 (note) It is..probable that they were complete strangers, but attracted to Philip by his Grecized name. 1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) i. 14 The early Roman Church was but a colony of Greek Christians or Grecised Jews. ˈGraecizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > making like Greek Graecizing18.. 18.. Kitto Hist. Bible Introd. (1873) 34 (Funk) This is what enraged them so much against the Hellenistic, or Grecizing Jews, who read the Septuagint Greek version in their synagogues. 1861 R. C. Trench Comm. Epist. 7 Churches Asia 82 Νικόλαος is no more than a grecizing of this name [Balaam]. 1884 J. Earle Anglo-Saxon Lit. 2 He lamented even in his time the Grecising of his mother-tongue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1702 |
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