[ad. Gr. Ἀττικισμός.]

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  1.  Siding with, or attachment to, Athens.

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1628.  Hobbes, Thucyd., VIII. xxxviii. Tydeus and his accomplices were put to death for atticism.

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1837.  Thirlwall, Greece, IV. xxxi. 188. The charge of Atticism.

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  2.  The peculiar style and idiom of the Greek language as used by the Athenians; hence, refined, elegant Greek, and gen. a refined amenity of speech, a well-turned phrase.

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1612.  T. James, Corrupt. Script., II. 68. Which yet for the stile and Atticismes comes a great deale short of Baronius commendation.

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1642.  Milton, Apol. Smect., Wks. 1851, 268. They made sport, and I laught, they mispronounc’t and I mislik’t, and to make up the atticisme, they were out, and I hist.

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1792.  W. Newcome, Eng. Biblical Transl., 279 (T.). There is an elegant Atticism which occurs [in] Luke xiii. 9. ‘If it bear fruit, well.’

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1813.  Examiner, 10 May, 298/1. Such a man would accuse Thucydides of false grammar on account of his atticisms.

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