Meaning of Greekize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make Greek or Greek-like;
2. To behave and speak like a Greek.

Examples

“The earliest writers of France had modelled their taste by the Greek: Jodelle, Ronsard, Du Bartas, and others, imbued with Attic literature, Greekized the French idiom by their compounds, their novel terms, and their sonorous periphrases.”

“Prideaux says that Menelaus was compelled to go a second time to Antioch before obtaining the high-priesthood, on account of the opposition at Jerusalem ; and that this last time he consented to use his office to Greekize the Jews.”

“The Helladists, in whose ranks was the whole army, wished to consolidate and "Greekize" the regions which they had already won, without attempting to conquer more before the country was ready to digest it.”

“In the Greek ghettos he tended to "Greekize" English words.”

“'Greekize' as much as you like, Fea concluded; become a new Pausanias, Plutarch or Strabo.”

“We start perhaps with their point, which can now seem so much like a form of contemporary feminism or post-colonialism, that behind any 'eutrality' or 'universality' of opinion there is always a highly culturally and historically determined context: 'But does nto the Husserlian transcendental subject hide European man whose privilege it is constantly to 'Europeanize', as the Greeks 'Greekized', that is to say, to go beyond the linmits of other cultures that are preserved as psychosocial types?'”

“In the Zenon archive of papyri from third century Egypt, a camel-driver complains of not receiving regular payment, presumably because, as he states, “I am a barbarian,” and, “I do not know how to 'Greekize'/behave-and-speak-like-a-Greek (hellēnizein).”

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