单词 | semiticize |
释义 | Semiticizev. transitive. To make (a people, language, word, etc.) Semitic in character; = Semitize v.Less common than Semitize. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > Semitic [verb (transitive)] Semitize1858 Semiticize1860 Shemiticize1862 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 48 The..Sawahili races, mulattos, originally African, but semiticised like the Moplahs of Malabar by Yemeni or Omani blood. 1881 Athenæum 9 July 48/1 The word became Semiticized by the Assyrians into Dumuzu. 1935 Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, Austral.) 15 Aug. 2/5 They [sc. the Abyssinians] are Christians semiticised by waves of Semitic invasion from Arabia. 2010 K. Mallette European Modernity & Arab Mediterranean iv. 129 They did not..vet their literary Maltese by semiticizing it. Derivatives Seˈmiticizing n. [compare slightly earlier Semitization n.] ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > making Semitization1880 Semiticizing1885 1885 Academy 3 Jan. 15/1 I used to watch with much interest the Semiticising of foreign names in Syria. 2005 R. H. Davis in A. Ayres & P. Oldenburg India Briefing 108 Some have called this move toward unity a ‘semiticizing’ of Hinduism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1860 |
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