Semitize, v.
(ˈsɛmɪtaɪz)
Also † Semetize.
[f. Semite + -ize.]
trans. To render Semitic in character, language, or religion.
| 1869 Baldwin Preh. Nations iv. (1877) 159 The language of Phoenicia is said to have been Semetized. 1880 Cheyne Isa. xx. I. 118 The name is..therefore non-Semitic, but the Assyrians..Semitised it into Sarru-kinu. 1895 Athenæum 6 Apr. 447/3 We have a school who would roundly semitize the whole Greek civilization. |
Hence ˈSemitized ppl. a.; ˈSemitizing ppl. a. Also Semitiˈzation, the action of the verb.
| 1885 W. R. Smith in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 756/1 [The Philistines] were a Semitic or at least a thoroughly Semitized people. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 656/1 The partial Semitization of the southern districts of Abyssinia. 1884 Cheyne Isa. xix. (ed. 3) I. 119 The political history of Palestine assisted this Semitising process. |