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Atticism|ˈætɪsɪz(ə)m| [ad. Gr. ἀττικισµός.] 1. Siding with, or attachment to, Athens.
1628Hobbes Thucyd. viii. xxxviii, Tydeus and his accomplices were put to death for atticism. 1837Thirlwall Greece IV. xxxi. 188 The charge of Atticism. 2. The peculiar style and idiom of the Greek language as used by the Athenians; hence, refined, elegant Greek, and gen. a refined amenity of speech, a well-turned phrase.
1612T. James Corrupt. Scripture ii. 68 Which yet for the stile and Atticismes comes a great deale short of Baronius commendation. 1642Milton Apol Smect. Wks. 1851, 268 They made sport, and I laught, they mispronounc't and I mislik't, and to make up the atticisme, they were out, and I hist. 1792Newcome Eng. Bible Trans. 279 (T.) An elegant atticism which occurs [in] Luke xiii. 9. 1813Examiner 10 May 298/1 Such a man would accuse Thucydides of false grammar on account of his atticisms. |