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Definition of Atticize
1. v. t. To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica.
2. v. i. To side with the Athenians.
Definition of Atticize
1. Verb. To side with the Athenians. ¹
2. Verb. To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Atticize
1. to use atticisms [v -CIZED, -CIZING, -CIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atticize
Literary usage of Atticize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: Ionic by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"The Ionic rj is retained except by those who atticize outright. Plutarch rarely
swerves from the original. t in place of о in -oto verbs is found in Clemens ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... while some atticize, eg the Cappadocians and Synesius. The Latin Fathers are
often less classical. Tertullian is a Latin Carlyle; lie knew Greek, ..."
3. The Early Literary Career of Robert Browning: Four Lectures by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1911)
"I only wish he would atticize a little," he wrote early in the forties. " Few of
the Athenians have such a quarry on their property, but they constructed ..."
4. Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia: On the Care of the Aged, & Maximianus, Elegies ...by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind by Gabriele de Zerbis, Levi Robert Lind (1988)
"... in the liberal arts, courtly, let him avoid mere blather,587 that is, stupid
and over-eager elocution, let him not atticize or sici- ..."
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