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单词 graecize
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GraecizeGrecizev.

Brit. /ˈɡriːsʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɡriˌsaɪz/
Etymology: < Latin Graecizāre, < Graecus Greek n.: see -ize suffix.
1. transitive. To assimilate to what is Greek; to give a Greek cast, character, or form to.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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