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Semite +‎ -ize

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Semitize (third-person singular simple present Semitizes, present participle Semitizing, simple past and past participle Semitized)

  1. (transitive) To make Semitic as to language or culture.
    • 1999, Jacques Berlinerblau, Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals:
      In a 1968 contribution he would even Semitize the Latin half of the Greco- Roman legacy by observing that the Phoenicians were "in Italy at the dawn of Roman history."

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