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Egyptizing

Egyptizing is the present participle and gerund of Egyptize.

Meaning of Egyptize

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

Questions about Egyptizing

What is Egyptizing the present participle and gerund of?
Egyptizing is the present participle and gerund of Egyptize.

Words near Egyptizing in the dictionary

  1. Egyptiot
  2. Egyptiots
  3. Egyptize
  4. Egyptized
  5. Egyptizes
  6. Egyptizing
  7. Egyptland
  8. Egypto-
  9. Egyptocentric
  10. Egyptologer
  11. Egyptologers

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