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solecize, v. Now rare or Obs.|ˈsɒləsaɪz| Also 7, 9 solecise, 7 solœcise, -cize, solæcize. [ad. Gr. σολοικίζειν, f. σόλοικος: see solecism. So F. soléciser.] intr. To make use of, or commit, solecisms in language, behaviour, conduct, etc. (a)1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 225 Absurd fellowes..solecising continually in opinion, speech, action, whole life. 1662Hibbert Body of Divinity i. 207 Men compact of meer incongruities, solecising in all, opinion, speeches and actions. (b)1655Stanley Hist. Philos. (1687) 30/1 A City, called..Soleis, whither he brought also some few Athenians, whose Language growing corrupt by that of the Country, they were said to solœcise. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. i. ix. 26 To phansie the Holy Writers to solœcize in their language, when we do not like the sense. 1699Bentley Phal. xii. 320 If these Examples be not sufficient to give Mr. B. some clearer apprehension, what it is to solœcize in the Attic way, it's to no use to add more. Hence ˈsolecizer, ˈsolecizing vbl. n.
1693J. Edwards Auth. O. & N. T. 36 Those persons who dream of solecisms in Holy Scripture are the greatest solecisers themselves. 1895H. Callan From Clyde to Jordan xxvii 283 There is..no solecising even in Soli. |