Greekise

Verb

Greekize (third-person singular simple present Greekizes, present participle Greekizing, simple past and past participle Greekized)

1. To make Greek or Greek-like;
   • The earliest writers of France had modelled their taste by the Greek: Jodelle, Ronsard, Du Bartas, and others, imbued with Attic literature, Greekized the French idiom by their compounds, their novel terms, and their sonorous periphrases.1865, Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of Literature

   Synonyms:

   Greekify, Hellenize

2. To behave and speak like a Greek.
   • 'Greekize' as much as you like, Fea concluded; become a new Pausanias, Plutarch or Strabo.2000, Ronald T. Ridley, The Pope's archaeologist: the life and times of Carlo Fea, page 215

   Synonyms:

   Hellenize