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单词 attic wit
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Attic wit
2. Having characteristics peculiarly Athenian; hence, of literary style, etc.: Marked by simple and refined elegance, pure, classical. Attic salt or Attic wit [after classical Latin sal Atticum; compare French sel attique (1668)] : refined, delicate, poignant wit. Attic faith [after classical Latin Attica fidēs; compare French foi attique (1662 or earlier)] : inviolable faith.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > particular kinds of wit
bavin wits1598
Attic salt1633
water-wit1658
Latin-wit1670
sheer wit1672
sea-wit1695
razor wit1786
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective]
fairOE
facundc1381
rhetorian?c1400
facundious1430
rhetoricalc1450
elegantc1475
rhetorial1521
concinnate1548
humane1552
concinne1569
Attic1633
compt1633
concinnated1868
stylish1892
Atticistic1919
1633 Battle of Lutzen in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 185 Written in a stile so attick..that it may well be called the French Tacitus.
1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 7 While Roman Spirit charms, and Attic Wit.
1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. iii. 27 Triumph swam in my father's eyes, at the repartee—the Attic salt brought water into them.
1830 T. Hamilton Cyril Thornton (1845) 49 The true attic pronunciation inculcated in Mrs. Blenkinsop's academy.
1864 M. Arnold in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 164 Well, but Addison's prose is Attic prose.
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