Panhellenic (panhelenik), nik)

[= F. panhel lénique (cf. Gr. Πανελλήνιος, of all the Greeks, neut. Πανελλήνιον, the whole Greek people), Panhellenism (pan-hel'en-izm), n. [F. pan hellénis me; as Panhellen (ic) + -ism.] 1. The desire or effort to unite all Greeks into one political body: an idea which in the third century B. C. was put into partial and incomplete realization in the Achean League, and in modern times was pursued at the beginning of the present century by the Greeks and their sympathizers in Europe and America, and is still the cherished hope of modern Greek statesmen.2. The general body of interests and ideas having to do with all persons and things of Greek origin.