Grecicize

See also: grecicize

English

Verb

Grecicize (third-person singular simple present Grecicizes, present participle Grecicizing, simple past and past participle Grecicized)

  1. Alternative form of Graecicize
    • 1885, M.G. van Rensselaer, "Berlin and New York", in The American Architect and Building News, 18 July 1885.
      His Schauspielhaus (the Royal Theatre, not the Opera-House) is an excellent example of what can be done with Greek, or more truly by Grecicizing, forms kept free from all Roman intermixture.
    • 1917, M. Edith Durham, "Albania Past and Present", in The Journal of the Central Asian Society, vol. IV.
      All efforts to Slavize, Grecicize, or Ottomanize him have failed.
    • 1923, Eilert Ekwall, English Place-Names in -ing, Lund.
      The early names ΄Ασκαλιγγιον Ptol., Caspingium Tab. Peut. (cf. Förstemann, Die deutschen Ortsnamen, p. 198) may be partly Grecicized or Latinized.
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