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Definition of Hellenistical

1. Adjective. Relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization.

Definition of Hellenistical

1. Adjective. Hellenistic ¹

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Literary usage of Hellenistical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recensio synoptica annotationis sacrae, being a critical digest and by Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (1828)
"But though this be the more elegant reading, the other seems the truer, as more assimilated to the hellenistical style. Wetstein adverts to the Vulg. ..."

2. Tracts for the Times. by John Henry Newman, John Keble, William Palmer, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Isaac Williams, University of Oxford (1840)
"To these testimonies out of the Old Testament, to show that " do" signifies " offer," I think fit to add one more out of a Jewish hellenistical writer, ..."

3. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1848)
"... to those who are willing to ' dig more than for hid treasures.' (Job iii. 21.) 1. In his hellenistical edition of the Greek Testament, ..."

4. Institutes of Biblical Criticism by Gilbert Gerard (1823)
"It is agreed, that the Pentateuch was translated into Greek about 280 years before Christ, for the use of the hellenistical Jews ; and the version is very ..."

5. Studia Sacra: Commentaries on the Introductory Verses of St. John's Gospel by John Keble (1877)
"... in language,—the one mainly Oriental, the other hellenistical,—take up as it were between them the whole world of civilized readers at that time. ..."

6. A New and Complete History of the Holy Bible as Contained in the Old and New by Robert Sears (1844)
"... king of Egypt, about 140 years before Christ, for the use of the hellenistical Jews, among whom he had settled in Alexandria. The Hebrew original is now ..."

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