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Hellenize

Hellenize \Hel"len*ize\, v. i. [Gr. ?.] To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.

Hellenize

Hellenize \Hel"len*ize\, v. t. [Gr. ?.] To give a Greek form or character to; to Grecize; as, to Hellenize a word.

Usage examples of "hellenize".

Cicero, the herald of the Augustan consciousness, had followed Panaitios in Hellenizing and humanizing the Stoa.

The Land of Onias was the home of the Jews who had fled from Hellenized Judaea after refusing to acknowledge a schismatic high priest, and it kept its fervent Jewishness still.

But that was ancient history now, and over most of the Hellenized world the estate system and slavegangs had spread.