a. [f. LATINIST + -IC.] Pertaining to or characterized by latinism; characteristic of a latinist.
1804. Coleridge, Lett., 10 March, in Lit. Rem. (1836), II. 413. [Sir T. Browne’s diction is] hyperlatinistic.
1886. Symonds, Renaiss. It., Catholic React. (1898), VII. viii. 23. The classical enthusiasm of the Renaissance is on the point of expiring in those Latinistic artifices.
So Latinistical a.
1723. Mather, Vind. Bible, 45. Latinistical words are to be found in the New Testament.
