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Græcize, Grecize, v.|ˈgriːsaɪz|
[ad. L. Græcizāre, f. Græc-us Greek: see -ize.]
1. trans. To assimilate to what is Greek; to give a Greek cast, character, or form to.
1692R. L'Estrange Josephus, Antiq. i. (1733) 3 Josephus endeavours to Grecize, and shape the history of the Jews as like as he could to those of the Greeks and Romans. 1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids 200 note, This word, as usual, they Græcised. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. III. iv. §35. 194 Whatever is..in any way Grecized or Romanized. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome vii. 390 Hilderic..succeeded to the throne without dispute, though entirely Grecized by education and long residence in Constantinople. 1880T. Hodgkin Italy & Inv. ii. ii. II. 81 note, His habit of Grecising the names of undoubted Huns.
2. intr.
a. To favour the cause of the Greeks. rare—1.
b. To become Greek-like; to adopt Greek expressions, idioms, modes of life, etc.
1840Blackw. Mag. XLVII. 646 To Graecize or not to Graecize had become a test of patriotic feeling. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 126 One who ‘Græcises’ in language or mode of life. 1892Guardian 18 May 743/3 The MS. quite certainly does not Latinise but Graecises.
Hence ˈGræcized ppl. a., ˈGræcizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
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. 1860Ellicott Life Our Lord vii. 316 note, It is..probable that they were complete strangers, but attracted to Philip by his Grecized name. 1861Trench Comm. Ep. to 7 Ch. Asia 82 νικόλαος is no more than a grecizing of this name [Balaam]. 1861Stanley East. Ch. i. (1869) 14 The early Roman Church was but a colony of Greek Christians or Grecised Jews. 1884Earle Ags. Lit. 2 He lamented even in his time the Grecising of his mother-tongue. |