Greekify

present singular third person Greekifies · participle present Greekifying · participle past Greekified · past Greekified

1. to make Greek.

   Although he was an opponent of the populares, no one did more than Cicero to Latinize Greek rhetoric and Greekify Roman oratory.

   2010, Jan H. Blits, Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 101

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   Led by his son Judah the Hammer (Judah Maccabee), the rebels fought a guerrilla war, not only against the Syrian army of occupation, but also against the Jewish priests and nobles who were trying to Greekify the Jewish religion.

   2015, Judy Petsonk, Queen of the Jews: Salome Alexandra, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 281

   The guards in the king's retinue had tried to Greekify their helmets by sewing on pieces of boar tusk, though the tusky chunks flapped around like hangnails.

   2019, Bryan Furuness, My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed, Indiana University Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms: Hellenize