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Synonym of Grecize (to translate into Greek or render in a Greek form).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare, transitive
Examples
- 2001, John Douglas Turner, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Québec; Éditions Peeters, Louvain – Paris. The largely non-Semitic and non-Christian, Graecicizing form of the names of the beings named are not part of the standard repertoire of names invoked in the traditional baptismal context, which suggests that they originated elsewhere.
- 2013, Samuel N. C. Lieu, "The 'Romanitas' of the Xi'an Inscription", in From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, Li Tang & Dietmar W. Winkler (Eds.), Lit Verlag GmbH & Co. KG Wien. The most obvious Syriac church-hierarchical term in the context of the Syriac would have been papa (<Lat.) or in its Graecicized form pap(p)os which in this case does not mean 'Pope' but a 'metropolitan bishop'.
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Synonyms: Grecize
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Alternative letter-case form of Graecicize.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
Examples
- 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...
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