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Egyptize

Egyptize verb: to give an Egyptian character or appearance to.

Verb

Egyptize (third-person singular simple present Egyptizes, present participle Egyptizing, simple past and past participle Egyptized)

  1. (transitive) To give an Egyptian character or appearance to.
    • […] the prevailing tendency to idolize after the manner of Egypt, where the portraying of such objects was so usual, and, at the same time, so peculiar to that country among the nations of antiquity, that it might with the utmost propriety be given as the characteristic mark of an Egyptizing spirit...1855, Patrick Fairbairn, Ezekiel and the Book of His Prophecy: An Exposition

Forms of Egyptize

third-person singular presentEgyptizes
present participleEgyptizing
past participleEgyptized
pastEgyptized

Origin of Egyptize

From Egypt + -ize.

Questions about Egyptize

What does Egyptize mean?
Egyptize means to give an Egyptian character or appearance to.
What part of speech is Egyptize?
Egyptize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Egyptize?
The past tense of Egyptize is Egyptized.

Words near Egyptize in the dictionary

  1. Egyptians
  2. Egyptic
  3. Egypticity
  4. Egyptiot
  5. Egyptiots
  6. Egyptize
  7. Egyptized
  8. Egyptizes
  9. Egyptizing
  10. Egyptland
  11. Egypto-

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