Greekise

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Greekise (third-person singular simple present Greekises, present participle Greekising, simple past and past participle Greekised)

  1. Alternative form of Greekize
    • 1912, The Fortnightly Review - Volume 97, page 341:
      Moreover, the insurrection —small as it was—has brought home to Europe and to the Greeks, who are so actively engaged in endeavouring to “Greekise” the whole of Southern Albania, the fact that there are Albanians in this district, and that Moslems as well as Orthodox Christians are prepared to risk their lives and property by fighting for the interests of their nationality.
    • 1977, Inverness Gaelic Society, Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness - Volume 49, page 32:
      English has been Latinised, Greekised, Frenchised in a way that Gaelic never has been.