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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.