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Definition of Grecizing
1. grecize [v] - See also: grecize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grecizing
Literary usage of Grecizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1917)
"For convenience, and without aiming to make rigid categories, we may call the
one group Roman or nationalistic, the other grecizing or Hellenistic. ..."
2. A General Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures: In a Series of by Joseph Dixon (1853)
"... (here we again translate Greeks,) who are there distinguished from the gentiles,
and therefore must mean the unconverted grecizing Jews, or Hellenists. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1900)
"... instead of the grecizing Lystra, is usual on coins and inscriptions). ...
the capital, would give it some opportunity of sharing in the grecizing ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"The passion for " grecizing," which Juvenal resents in the line quoted above,
received its chief impulse under Nero, and the Roman spirit has avenged itself ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"They advocated the strictest ideals of Judaism prescribed by the scribes, opposed
the grecizing tendencies of the age, and for a long time supported the ..."
6. Journal of Theological Studies (1901)
"Codices B and E in the Psalms frequently cite in the margin the reading of 'the
Greek' (1-^0-), tempting some later grecizing scribe to corrupt the text ..."
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