Grecicize

See also: grecicize

English

Verb

Grecicize (third-person singular simple present Grecicizes, present participle Grecicizing, simple past and past participle Grecicized)

Alternative form of Graecicize
- 1885 July 18, M.G. van Rensselaer, “Berlin and New York”, in The American Architect and Building News:
  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.
- 1917, M. Edith Durham, “Albania Past and Present”, in The Journal of the Central Asian Society, volume IV:
  All efforts to Slavize, Grecicize, or Ottomanize him have failed.
- 1923, Eilert Ekwall, English Place-Names in -ing, Lund:
  The early names ΄Ασκαλιγγιον Ptol., Caspingium Tab. Peut. (cf. Förstemann, Die deutschen Ortsnamen, p. 198) may be partly Grecicized or Latinized.