Greekize

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
   • Prideaux says that Menelaus was compelled to go a second time to Antioch before obtaining the high-priesthood, on account of the opposition at Jerusalem ; and that this last time he consented to use his office to Greekize the Jews.1868, Samuel Hobart Winkley, A Study of the Scriptures: Parts I & II, page 28

   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
   • We start perhaps with their point, which can now seem so much like a form of contemporary feminism or post-colonialism, that behind any 'eutrality' or 'universality' of opinion there is always a highly culturally and historically determined context: 'But does nto the Husserlian transcendental...2015, Rex Butler, Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?': A Reader's Guide

   Synonyms:

   Hellenize