单词 | semitize |
释义 | Semitizev. transitive. To make (a people, language, word, etc.) Semitic in character. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > Semitic [verb (transitive)] Semitize1858 Semiticize1860 Shemiticize1862 1858 G. Rawlinson in tr. Herodotus Hist. I. App. xi. 660 It is clear that before the coming of Abraham into their [sc. the Canaanites'] country they had by some means been Semitised, since all the Canaanitish names of the time are palpably Semitic. 1869 J. D. Baldwin Pre-hist. Nations (1877) iv. 159 The language of Phoenicia is said to have been Semetized. 1880 T. K. Cheyne Prophecies of Isaiah I. xx. 118 The name is..therefore non-Semitic, but the Assyrians..Semitised it into Sarru-kinu. 1912 Sullivan (Indiana) Union 6 Mar. 4/1 No artist has ever dared to Semitize the face of Jesus. 2014 Kashmir Monitor (Nexis) 14 July Hindutva wants to ‘Semitize’ Hinduism, giving it a god, a book, a revelation, a prophet [etc.] Derivatives ˈSemitizing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective] > making Semitizing1870 1870 Sunday at Home 28 May 343/1 Her [sc. Babylon's] Cushite character had by this time been lost, overpowered and crushed out by the Semitizing influence of her neighbours, the Arabians and Assyrians. 1936 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 55 176 Phenicians and Philistines offered little opposition to Semitizing influences. 2005 B. Doyle tr. T. C. Vriezen & A. S. van der Woude Anc. Israelite & Early Jewish Lit. xiii. 567 Christian authors are not unknown for their use of the semitising Greek of the Septuagint. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1858 |
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