| 单词 |
Medize |
| 释义 |
Medize, v.|ˈmiːdaɪz| [mod. ad. Gr. Μηδίζ-ειν, f. Μῆδοι the Medes: see -ize.] intr. To be a Mede in manners, language and dress; to side with the Medes. Of a Greek of the 6th and 5th c. b.c.: To favour the interests of the ‘Median’ or Persian enemies of his country. Also trans. To make like a Mede. Hence ˈMedizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1849Grote Greece ii. xl. V. 101 The leading men of Thebes..decidedly medised, or espoused the Persian interest. a1873Lytton Pausanias iii. iii. (1876) 248 They would rather all Hellas were Medised than Pausanias the Heracleid. Ibid. iv. 265 The Medising traitor is here. Ibid. iv. iv. 341 They accuse him of medising. 1901Contemp. Rev. Feb. 176 The Greek thought of ‘Medizing’ as the sum of all possible offences. |

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