10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOLECIST»
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On the kind of evidence he does use, Galen might just as well be an enemy of
Lucian — since he has written against those who correct solecisms, like Lucian,
author of the Solecist. To say 'the bond between Lucian and Galen was
intellectual ...
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language on a Plan ...
*o7ayy, a. rafetiti'al, a. Solec— os (tfoXoixo.c, a SoXoi, an Athenian colony in
Citicid), one who speaks incorrectly. JsoZ'eeism, n. solecist' \cb\, a. solecize, v.
solecist, n. soledst'icaily, ad. Solemn-zs, a. solemn, religiously grave, serious.
solemn, ...
John Oswald, John Miller Keagy, 1844
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
inxoZa'tion, n. ' fo'lar, a. fsoZ'stice, n. *»o/a'no, n. so'fery, a. sofetiti'al, a. SOLEC-
OS (tfoXo.xoj, & ZoXoi, an Athenian colony in Cilicia), one who speaks incorrectly
. Isol'ecism, n. solecist'ica], a. sol'ecize, v. tofecist, n. solecisl'icaMy, ad. SOLEM.
John Oswald, John Miller Keagy, 1840
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Aufstieg U Niedergang D Roemwelt Teil 2 Bd 34/2
BALDWIN'S linguistic analysis is at times unconvincing, but he is right, as
opposed to BOMPAIRE, in insisting on the 'actualite' of 'Pseudologista', '
Lexiphanes', 'Rhetorum Praeceptor' and 'Solecist', as directed against
contemporary ...
Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase, 1994
I have based my text for the Solecist on Nilen's Teubner, and for Podagra and
Ocypus on Zimmer- mann's edition. Elsewhere I have prepared my own text by
collation of the manuscripts ; I have been considerably helped in this task by use
of ...
Lucian (of Samosata.), Austin Morris Harmon, 1979
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A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... ...
One who is guilty of impropriety in language. Blackmail. SOLECIST'IC, \a.
Incorrect; incon- SOLECIST'ICAL, / gruous. Johnson. SOLECIST'ICALLY, adv. In
a solecistic manner. Blackmail. SOL'ECIZE, v. i. [Gr. aoAo/*/£i>.] To commit
solecism.
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The Fowlers: Their Achievements in Lexicography and Grammar
The Fowlers themselves suggested 'The New Solecist for literary tiros' (after
Lucian's title The Solecist') or 'The (or the Clarendon Press) Book of Solecisms for
journalists, novelists, & schoolboys'. They offered to put out the book
anonymously ...
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The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated: Or, An Essay ...
And is it either an unusual or faint trope . þ* Faccssaht illi. qui stylum Novi
Teslamenti non satis Grmcum esle (etiam qui sibi aliisqtie maxime vigilare
vidsebantur) somniabant. Pasor. Grsc. Gram. Sat. , p. r9. t , * 3 Lucian. Solecist. p.
758. n.
He targeted, among others, book collectors—silly bibliophiles—(Ignorant Book-
Collector), word gatherers—hyper-Atticist pedants—(Consonants at Law, the
Solecist, Lexiphanes), and in general bad sophists and rhetoric professors (the ...
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The Medieval Greek Romance
This brings us finally to the language of G, which can broadly be categorized as
the 'middle' register, with some pretension to the 'high' style and about the same
number of concessions to the vernacular. It has been castigated as 'solecist', but
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