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Græcism, Grecism|ˈgriːsɪz(ə)m|
Also 5 Gryscysme, 6–7 Græcisme, 7 Grecisme.
[ad. F. grécisme, ad. med.L. Græcismus, f. Græcus Greek.]
†1. The Græcismus, a grammatical treatise in Latin verse of the 12th century. Obs. rare—1.
c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 189 In alle this scyens is non us lyke In Caton, Gryscysme, nor Doctrinal.
2. An idiom, or a grammatical or orthographical feature, belonging to the Greek language; esp. as used by a speaker or writer in another language.
1570Levins Manip. 146 Græcisme, Græcismus. a1610Healey Theophrastus To Rdr. (1636), The French is elegant enough..and has many Graecismes. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 13 No Man has so happily copy'd the Manner of Homer; or so copiously translated his Grecisms. 1712Addison Spect. No. 285 ⁋9 Milton..has infused a great many Latinisms as well as Græcisms..into the Language of his Poem. a1800Cowper Comm. Milton's P.L. i. 335 A Græcism, and taken from the ουδ' απιθησε..of Homer. 1880Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §150 In one instance it is written sch where nothing but the simple sc is heard, as school. This is probably a Grecism. 1881G. W. Moon Revisers' Eng. vii. (1882) 20 The maintenance of pure idiomatic English, in opposition to the Grecisms into which the Revisers have occasionally been betrayed.
3. The spirit or style characteristic of the Greeks in art, mode of thought or expression, and the like; adoption or imitation of these; an instance of this.
1609Bible (Douay) II. Index, Sectes of Panimes, Barbarisme, Scythisme, and Grecisme. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxiv. 221 The influence of the Grecian Empire on the Persians had then spiced them with a smack of Grecisme. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. xii. 76 Words, which savor not more of Grecisme, than of the Illyric. 1806Edin. Rev. VII. 489 The which apotheosis of Alexander was one grand Grecism. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) I. 31 The ridiculous affectation of Grecism that was prevalent in the decline of Rome. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. App. xvii. 392 Every stunted Grecism and stucco Romanism, into which they are now forced to shape their palsied thoughts. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. iv. (1872) 29 There is..especially in his early writings, a certain tinge of Grecism. 1871Ruskin Fors Clav. (1896) I. xxiii. 463 The singular Grecism in Shakespeare's mind. |