单词 | medize |
释义 | Medizev. Ancient Greek History. 1. intransitive. To follow the Medes or Persians in manners, language, and dress; to sympathize with or favour the interests of the Medes or Persians; to practise Medism. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Peloponnesian War i. 71 The Lacedaemonians by their Ambassadours to the Athenians, accused Themistocles, for that hee also had medized together with Pausanias. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xl. 101 The leading men of Thebes..decidedly medised, or espoused the Persian interest. 1874 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 411 Believing firmly in his intuitions, revelations of reason, he [sc. Jefferson] never knew when the oracle was medizing. 1936 G. K. Chesterton Autobiogr. xiv. 290 One is still, I believe,..‘a Satrap’; as if he had somehow Medised or condescended to the original barbarism which we call Imperialism. 2. transitive. To cause to resemble a Mede or Persian; to bring under the influence of or cause to follow the example of the Medes or Persians. ΚΠ 1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) iii. iii. 190 They would rather all Hellas were Medised than Pausanias the Heracleid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1629 |
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