greekize
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2VERB + GREEKIZE
consolidate
GREEKIZE + NOUN
regions
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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.
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.
To behave and speak like a Greek.
'Greekize' as much as you like, Fea concluded; become a new Pausanias, Plutarch or Strabo.
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 subject hide European man whose privilege it is constantly to 'Europeanize', as the Greeks 'Greekized', that is to say, to go beyond the linmits of other cultures that are preserved as psychosocial types?'
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3The 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
WiktionaryPrideaux 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 h
WiktionaryThe Helladists, in whose ranks was the whole army, wished to consolidate and "Greekize" the regions which they had already won, without attempting to conquer more before the country was ready to diges
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