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Hellenistic, a.|hɛlɪˈnɪstɪk|
[f. prec. + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to the Hellenists; using the Greek language and following Greek modes of thought or life. a. Applied to the modified form of the Greek language, with many foreign elements, current in Egypt, Syria, and other countries, after the time of Alexander the Great.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hellenistical, or Hellenistick, belonging to Greece. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v., Salmasius rejects the common opinion of the learned touching the Hellenistic language. 1827G. S. Faber Expiatory Sacr. 111 Through the Hellenistic use of a well-known Hebrew idiom. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. (1855) II. 373 He [Salmasius] says..in the last age (i.e. prior to 1643) the very name of Hellenistic was unknown to scholars. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. Introd. §398 The term Hellenistic was coined to denote the language of Greek-speaking Jews.
b. Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of this later age, when the true Hellenic characteristics were modified by foreign elements; belonging to the school of Greek art after the time of Alexander.
1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece x. 297 Menander, whose essentially refined and social temper belonged more properly to the Platonic than the Hellenistic age.
Hence Helleˈnisticism, the Hellenistic condition or stage of history.
1897Daily Chron. 24 May, This change in the world's history, the change from Hellenism to Hellenisticism, is regarded by the essayist as an almost unmixed blessing. |