GraecismGrecismn.
/ˈɡriːsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈɡriˌsɪzəm/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > [noun] > treatise or book on grammar > specific
donet1362
accidencec1434
Graecismc1450
polygrammar1812
c1450 Cov. 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.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > word or idiom of
Graecism1570
Hellenism1609
Ionism1676
Doricism1698
Dorism1698
Ionicism1699
Aeolism1712
Greekism1803
Alexandrianism1822
Cilicism1848
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miii/1 Græcisme, Græcismus.
a1610 J. Healey in tr. Theophrastus Characters To Rdr. sig. I2v, in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) The French is elegant enough..and hath many Græcismes.
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. viii No Man has so happily Copy'd the Manner of Homer; or so copiously translated his Grecisms.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 285. ¶9 Milton..has infused a great many Latinisms, as well as Græcisms, into the Language of his Poem.
a1800 W. Cowper Comm. Milton's Paradise Lost i. 335 A Græcism, and taken from the ουδ' απιθησε..of Homer.
1879 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) ii. 148 In one instance it is written sch where nothing but the simple sc is heard, as school. This is probably a Grecism.
1881 G. W. Moon Revisers' Eng. (1882) vii. 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.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Greeks > [noun] > quality or character of
Graecism1609
Hellenism1728
Greeknessa1861
neohellenism1879
1609 Bible (Douay) II. Index Sectes of Panimes, Barbarisme, Scythisme, and Grecisme.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiv. 221 The influence of the Grecian Empire on the Persians had then spiced them with a smack of Grecisme.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. xii. 76 Words, which savor not more of Grecisme, than of the Illyric.
1806 Edinb. Rev. 7 489 The which apotheosis of Alexander was one grand Grecism.
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 31 The ridiculous affectation of Grecism that was prevalent in the decline of Rome.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. xvii. 392 Every stunted Grecism and stucco Romanism, into which they are now forced to shape their palsied thoughts.
1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. iv. 44 There is..especially in his early writings, a certain tinge of Grecism.
1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) I. xxiii. 463 The singular Grecism in Shakespeare's mind.
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