solecisticadj.
/sɒlᵻˈsɪstɪk/ Of the nature of or involving solecism:
a. In speech or diction.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [adjective]
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1806 C. Symmons Life Milton 341 The earliest of these replies, the barbarous and solœcistick style of which [etc.].
1849 Notes & Queries I. 149/2 Is it too late to make an effectual stand against the solecistic expression ‘Mutual friend’?
1856 W. H. Thompson in W. A. Butler Lect. Hist. Anc. Philos. I. 389 The use of late words, and of solecistic and Latinizing constructions.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 296 His solœcistic Greek was sufficient to prove that the language was unfamiliar to him.
b. In thought or conduct.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [adjective]
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out of one's book (also books)1549
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solecistic1865
1865 Reader 22 July 87/1 It is rarely that Miss Cobbe distresses fastidiousness by any solecistic ventures in matters of minor import.
1884 19th Cent. Jan. 138 Illustrations of the solecistic views which are entertained of those distant parts of the Empire.
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