Graecicize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Graecicize is a verb meaning Alternative letter-case form of Graecicize.
Meaning
Alternative letter-case form of Graecicize.
Example Sentences
...Philipp Melanchthon, who, in honour of classical learning graecicized his German name of Schwarzerd.
"Arimanios" seems to be a graecicized form of "Ahriman," the evil cosmic principle in Zoroastrian teaching.
1883, F. Warrington Eastlake, "Equine Deities", in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. XI, R. Meiklejohn & Co., Yokohama. For not only was Yauk a sun-god of the Sabaeans, but Set, under the title of Tebha, graecicized Typhon, was a personification of the destructive energy of the great orb.
1984, Antoine Berman, The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany (L'Épreuve de l'étranger), State University of New York Press, Albany (S. Heyvaert, trans., 1992). If Hölderlin had merely "dialectized" or "graecicized" his poetic language, its balancing double dimension and its differentiating power would disappear.
Word Forms
- graecicizes
- graecicizing
- graecicized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include grecicize, grecize, grecise, grecianize, gallicize, greisenize.
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