graecise

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graecise (third-person singular simple present graecises, present participle graecising, simple past and past participle graecised)

  1. Alternative form of Grecize
    • 1919, James Hope Moulton, A grammar of New Testament Greek - Volume 2, page 29:
      The same freedom is shown in his treatment of Mark,1 so much so indeed that it has been said that " Matthew graecises Mark."
    • 1923, The Yale Law Journal - Volume 33, page 353:
      The texts are numerous and widely distributed (thirty-six books of the Digest are represented) and the conclusion from our review is that they show very little evidence of any reforming activity in the compilers or their predecessors at Berytus, or of a tendency to graecise the law.
    • 2010, William Woodthorpe Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India, →ISBN, page 245:
      It is more likely that Peucela is taken from the province-name Peucelaitis, itself an attempt to graecise Pushkalavati ; similar names of town and province in conjunction, like Tyana-Tyanitis, Gabae-Gabiene, are extremely common, and it is not certain that the town-name is always the original one.