Hellenisticaladj.
/ˌhɛlᵻˈnɪstɪkl/, U.S. /ˌhɛləˈnɪstɪk(ə)l/ Now rare.
= Hellenistic adj.
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1637 J. Mede Name Altar iii. 33 Θὐσιλσήριον is a word not used by any Pagan Writer, but is a meer Ecclesiasticall and Hellenisticall terme.
1661 J. Fell Life Hammond 57 The importance of the Hellenistical Dialect, into which he had made the exactest search.
1770 Monthly Rev. Feb. 94 This is a merely hellenistical sense of the word.
1863 W. Jenks Comprehen. Comm. Holy Bible 322/1 This sense..is supposed to be Hellenistical, as it is never found in the classical writers.
1875 J. W. Draper Hist. Confl. Relig. & Sci. i. 17 To them the designation of Hellenistical Jews was given.
1963 Isis 54 186 The Schoolmen of the Middle Ages (and perhaps even some late Hellenistical natural philosophers) did have an anticipatory trend towards a mathematization of physics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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