Lexicographical Neighbors of Grecianize
Literary usage of Grecianize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"The attempt to grecianize modern names, has not been attended with success, and
is the most ridiculous method yet resorted to. ..."
2. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"... Grecian, Grecian», grecianize. So Murray, copying Blair, speaks of " Loti»'
ixed English ; " and, again, of style strictly " English, ..."
3. Chambers's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopaedia by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1853)
"They afterwards were closed, and, as a well known, attempts were finally made to
grecianize them with pillars and pediments. The increasing rivalry and ..."
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