Grecicize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Graecicize. alt-of, alternative

    "His Schauspielhaus (the Royal Theatre, not the Opera-House) is an excellent example of what can be done with Greek, or more truly by Grecicizing, forms kept free from all Roman intermixture."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Graecicize. alt-of, alternative

    "1894, H.E. Wassa Pasha and P. Colquhoun, "The Pelasgi and their Modern Albanian Descendants", in The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record, New Series, Vol. VII, No. 13, The Oriental University Institute, Woking. Interesting too is the contention, that after the Pelasgi had occupied Asia Minor and the islands in the Aegean Sea, they conquered Greece, became gradually grecicized, and then, from Greece, re-conquered their original settlements, which in the meanwhile had themselves become grecicized."

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"His Schauspielhaus (the Royal Theatre, not the Opera-House) is an excellent example of what can be done with Greek, or more truly by Grecicizing, forms kept free from all Roman intermixture."

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