"Hellenize" is a word in ENGLISH
To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to
Grecize.
To give a Greek form or character to; to Grecize; as,
to Hellenize a word.
Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.
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A local law enforcement officer stops a car for traveling faster thanthe posted speed limit. Since he's in a good mood that day he decidesto give the poor fellow a break and write him out a warning instead of aticket. So, he asks the man his name."Fred," he replies. Fred what?" the officer asks. "Just Fred," the man responds.When the officer presses him for a last name, the man tells him thathe used to have a last name but lost it. The officer thinks he has a nutcase on his hands but plays along with it."Tell me Fred, how did you lose your last name?"The man replies, "It's a long story so stay with me. I was born FredDingaling. I know, funny last name. The kids used to tease me all the time.So I stayed to myself. I studied hard and got good grades. When I gotolder I realized that I wanted to be a doctor. I went through college,medical school, internship, residency, finally got my degree, so I wasFred Dingaling, MD.After a while I got bored being a doctor so I decided to go back toschool. Dentistry was my dream. Got all the way through school, gotmy degree so I was now Fred Dingaling MD DDS. I got bored doingdentistry so I started fooling around with my assistant. She gave me VD.So, I was Fred Dingaling MD DDS with VD. Well, the ADA found outabout the VD so they took away my DDS so I was Fred Dingaling MDwith VD. Then the AMA found out about the ADA taking away my DDSbecause of the VD, so they took away my MD leaving me asFred Dingaling with VD. Then the VD took away my dingaling so nowI'm just Fred."
The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and …
Read the complete definitionA, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from …
Read the complete definitionApplied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which …
Read the complete definitionA native of Achaia; a Greek.
Read the complete definitionCombining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, …
Read the complete definitionThe combining form of the Greek word meaning air.
Read the complete definitionAn assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
Read the complete definitionThe first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
Read the complete definitionA prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.
Read the complete definitionA prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.
Read the complete definitionA collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly …
Read the complete definitionIn Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right …
Read the complete definitionA tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other …
Read the complete definitionThe Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
Read the complete definitionA prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a …
Read the complete definitionA deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the \"sun god\"), of archery, …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, …
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