{ Hel′le‐nis″tic (?), Hel′le‐nis″tic‐al (?), } a. [Cf. F. Hellénistique.] Pertaining to the Hellenists.
Hellenisticlanguage, dialect, or idiom, the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of the Septuagint.