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Meaning of "atticist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ATTICIST

ˈætɪsɪst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ATTICIST

noun
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determiner
exclamation
Atticist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ATTICIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Atticism

Atticism was a rhetorical movement that began in the first quarter of the 1st century BC; it may also refer to the wordings and phrasings typical of this movement, in contrast with various contemporary forms of Koine Greek, which continued to evolve in directions guided by the common usages of Hellenistic Greek. Atticism was portrayed as a return to Classical methods after what was perceived as the pretentious style of the Hellenistic, Sophist rhetoric and called for a return to the approaches of the Attic orators. Although the plainer language of Atticism eventually became as belabored and ornate as the perorations it sought to replace, its original simplicity meant that it remained universally comprehensible throughout the Greek world. This helped maintain vital cultural links across the Mediterranean and beyond. Admired and popularly imitated writers such as Lucian also adopted Atticism, so that the style survived until the Renaissance, when it was taken up by non-Greek students of Byzantine expatriates. Renaissance scholarship, the basis of modern scholarship in the west, nurtured strong Classical and Attic views, continuing Atticism for another four centuries.

Definition of atticist in the English dictionary

The definition of atticist in the dictionary is a person who uses the elegant and concise, Greek Attic style of expression.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ATTICIST

Atlanticist · Celticist · cyberneticist · cytogeneticist · demoticist · eroticist · exoticist · geneticist · kenoticist · kineticist · meteoriticist · neoplasticist · opticist · pharmacokineticist · pheneticist · phoneticist · pragmaticist · romanticist · semanticist · semioticist

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ATTICIST

attic · Attic order · attic room · Attic salt · Attic wit · Attica · Atticism · atticize · Attila · attire · attired · attirement · Attis · attitude · attitude problem · attitude survey · attitudinal · attitudinally · attitudinarian · attitudinise

WORDS THAT END LIKE ATTICIST

aerodynamicist · astrophysicist · bioethicist · biophysicist · ceramicist · classicist · empiricist · ethicist · eugenicist · exorcist · geophysicist · historicist · hydrodynamicist · lyricist · molecular geneticist · nuclear physicist · petrophysicist · physicist · polemicist · publicist · theoretical physicist

Synonyms and antonyms of atticist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «atticist» into 25 languages

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aticista
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Atticist
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attizistischen
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atticist
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Atticist
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atticist
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atticist
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atticist
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atticist
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atticistiska
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATTICIST»

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An Atticist Lexicon of the Second Sophistic: Philemon and ...
Philemon, author of an Atticist lexicon, was a scholar and poet in the late second century AD. His fragments can be pieced together from two different manuscript traditions.
C. G. Brown, 2008
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The Language of the New Testament: Context, History, and ...
The degree of effect and the exact features deployed vary from one author to another, though with a solid core of common Atticisms. The complexity of the situation is well illustrated by Lucian, who was an expert Atticist himself but can vary his ...
Stanley E. Porter, Andrew Pitts, 2013
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Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature
Quintilian's source is aggressively Atticist, and Timagenes is included for this reason, not, pace Radermacher,34 because of his interest in Alexander. The Atticist bias of the early list of recommended historians shows itself again, if not quite so ...
William J. Dominik, 2003
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A Short History of Classical Scholarship
In the second century lexicography received a new impulse from the prevailing fancy for imitating the great Lexico- Attic models of the past. graphere The chief representative of lexicography is the 'Atticist', Aelius Dionysius. He compiled a ...
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The Novel in the Ancient World
Hernandez Lara analyses some 500 words, from Chariton's vocabulary of 3000, that are listed as Atticist either in Atticist lexica or in Der Atticismus.K Many of these are excluded on the grounds that they also occur in the New Testament, Koine ...
Gareth L. Schmeling, 1996
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Making a New Man: Ciceronian Self-fashioning in the ...
Earlier in the Brutus Cicero had presented the Atticist movement within a long- range historical narrative of weakening health. Cicero traces Atticism's genealogy from its birth in Athens to its self-proclaimed Roman heirs as one of a decline from ...
John Richard Dugan, 2005
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Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman ...
Copious verbal display was certainly no good fit with the Atticist ideals of Brutus or Calvus, whom the Brutus mentions as a self-proclaimed Atticist. Cicero's praise of copia puts a sting into a narrative of decline that must have been agreeable to  ...
Wiebke Denecke, 2013
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Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers
Atticist. Grammars. and. Lexica: Aelius. Aristides. Those who wanted to write the best Attic, or at least to avoid writing what the guardians of the language most despised, clearly needed help. And since no one had spoken the prescribed model ...
Geoffrey Horrocks, 2009
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A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late ...
The "Atticist correction" of texts was effected in two ways: (a) through the systematic reading and excerpting of the canonical authors, as well as of books which one had to read in order to achieve the Atticist effect: [3i[3Aia a em x<5 axxixi^eiv ...
Anastasios-Phoivos Christidēs, Maria Arapopoulou, Maria Chritē, 2007
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Epochs and Styles: Selected Writings on the New Testament, ...
As a result, it is speedily concluded that there is Atticist influence in Luke. Norden's treatment of the linguistic problems in the Synoptics has been widely influential; his collection of examples was adopted and somewhat amplified by several ...
Albert Wifstrand, Lars Rydbeck, Stanley E. Porter, 2005
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Atticist [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/atticist>. May 2024 ».
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