Phrygianizev.
/ˈfrɪdʒɪənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈfrɪdʒiəˌnaɪz/ Now rare.
transitive. To give a Phrygian character to (something).In quot. 1836 apparently with allusion to the curved peak of a Phrygian cap (see Phrygian adj. 3).
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [verb (transitive)]
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1836 W. S. Landor Pericles & Aspasia I. 106 But whenever an obvious and natural thought presents itself, they either reject it for coming without imagination, or they phrygianize it with such biting and hot curling-irons, that it rolls itself up impenetrably.
1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 182 He [sc. Landor] never phrygianized (to borrow his own word) an obvious and natural thought.
1893 W. M. Ramsay Church in Rom. Empire xvii. 438 The natural tendency of the Phrygians to Phrygianise their beliefs.
1899 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 19 313 Did the Gauls not gradually become Phrygianized, i.e. assimilated to the Phrygian civilisation now beginning to be overlaid with a veneer of Hellenism?
1927 Classical Rev. 41 162/1 It is shown that the word is translated by, or Phrygianised from, the Greek.
2004 www.stormfront.org 15 July (O.E.D. Archive) The Phrygians certainly are thought to have conquered Armenia, but they also ‘Phrygianised’, for want of a better word, the pre-existing local population.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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