Medizingn.
/ˈmiːdʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmidˌaɪzɪŋ/ Ancient Greek History.
The action of sympathizing with or favouring the interests of the Medes or Persians; = Medism n.
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1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre iii. 178 And so much bee spoken by way of Apologie to our Medizing.
1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) iv. iv. 260 They accuse him of medising.
1881 G. Wilkins tr. Isocrates Panegyric 37 Many too did our fathers condemn even to death for medizing.
1901 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 176 The Greek thought of ‘Medizing’ as the sum of all possible offences.
1959 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 18 277 An archaistic nostalgia for the spirit of Thermopylae contends against supple ‘medizing’ by the determinist prophets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Medizingadj.
/ˈmiːdʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmidˌaɪzɪŋ/ Ancient Greek History.
That Medizes; that exhibits Medism.
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1684 J. Cooper tr. Plutarch Lives II. 502 Where the Medizing Greeks were to make their Assault.
1852 Democratic Rev. 31 Sept. 193/2 The Medising Greek, bowing to the power of the great King, had, till victory gave supremacy to heroic Hellas, the same contempt for Miltiades, Leonidas, and Themistocles, as the English and American Tories for the struggling rebel Washington.
1876 Bulwer-Lytton's Pausanias (ed. 2) iii. iv. 203 The Medising traitor is here.
1988 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 75 940/2 The analogy worked both ways, now elucidating the poet Pindar's attitude to his home, medizing Thebes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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