v. [ad. Gr. Ἀττικίζειν: see -IZE.] Hence Atticizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.

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  1.  intr. To side with or favor Athens.

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1753.  W. Smith, Thucyd., II. vi. 422 (R.). Tydeus the Ionian and his adherents having been lately put to death by Pædaritus for atticizing.

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1849.  Grote, Greece, II. liv. VI. 618. The Thebans destroyed the walls of Thespiæ … on the charge of atticizing tendencies.

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  2.  To affect Attic style; to conform to Athenian or (in wider sense) Greek habits, modes of thought, etc. a. intr. b. trans.; whence Atticized ppl. a.

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1610.  Healey, trans. Vives’ Comm. St. Aug. City of God (1620), 631. Pherecrates, a man wholly atticizing.

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1669.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. I. ii. 9. What is Plato but Moses Atticizing?

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1846.  Grote, Greece, I. xi. I. 277. The Atticised worship of the Eleusinian Dêmêtêr.

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