Hellenize
['helinaiz]
Definition
(v. i.) To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.
(v. t.) To give a Greek form or character to; to Grecize; as, to Hellenize a word.
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Examples
- There was a return to Egyptian political ideas, rather than any attempt to Hellenize the government of the country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- King Mithridates of Pontius, the Hellenized king of the southern shores of the Black Sea east of Bithynia, was pressing Rome into war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Historians say that he Hellenized the east. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already noted how the Hellenized Jews of Egypt lost their Hebrew, and had to have their Bible translated into Greek. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He crossed the Euphrates, expecting to find in Persia another Hellenized kingdom like Pontus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the other hand, there are those who see him only as a wrecker of the slowly maturing possibilities of a free and tranquil Hellenized world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The utmost reach of the thought of Greece before his time was of a Persian empire Hellenized, a predominance in the world of Macedonians and Greeks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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