Atticism
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(lang) Attachment to, collaboration with, favouring of, or with|siding with Athens or Athenians, ''especially'' in the context of the (w) (431–404 (B.C)).
(quote-book)|title=of the Peloponnesian War|Eight Bookes Of the (smc)|edition=reprint|year_published=1634|section=§ 4.133.1|page=286|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/eightbookesofpel00thucuoft/page/286/mode/1up|text=The ſame Summer, the ''Thebans'' demoliſhed the walles of the ''Theſpians'', laying Atticiſme to their charge.
〃, § 8.38.3, page 489:
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(quote-book).7|page=188|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?redir_esc=y&id=AEwbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA188&dq=Atticism&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0v=onepage&q=Atticism&f=false|text=Lysias and his brother were compelled to quit Thurii on the charge of ''Atticism'' (of taking the Athenian side in political questions) and they returned to Athens, which was then under the government of the Four Hundred.
(lang) The prestige dialect of Greek, as spoken and written by the inhabitants of Attica (chiefly Athens) in the fifth and fourth centuries (B.C); Greek.
(lang) The enduring rhetorical movement, begun in the 1st century (B.C), whose members strove to emulate the style of the best Attic orators of that Classical period; ''especially'' in contrast with Asianism or Hellenism. (Its leading early proponent, (w) (B.C), identified (w) (B.C) as “the perfect model of the Attic dialect”, whose virtues he enumerates to be “purity of language, correct dialect, the presentation of ideas by means of standard, not figurative expressions; clarity, brevity, concision, terseness, vivid representation…, the pleasing arrangement of words after the manner of ordinary speech…, charm and a sense of timing which regulates everything else”.)(cite-book) ''of Halicarnassus|Dionysius Alexandri Halicarnasseus''|translator=Stephen Usher|title=Critical Essays, Volume I: Ancient Orators. Lysias. Isocrates. Isaeus. Demosthenes. Thucydides.|series=(w)|seriesvolume=465|location=Massachusetts|Cambridge|publisher=(w)|year=1974|doi=10.4159/DLCL.dionysius_halicarnassus-lysias.1974|isbn=0-674-99512-0|section=Lysias (lang), §§ 2 and 13|pages=23 and 47|text=He is completely pure in his vocabulary, and is the perfect model of the Attic dialect — not the archaic dialect used by Plato and Thucydides, but that which was in general currency in his day, as exemplified in the speeches of Andocides, Critias and many other orators.original: (lang)…the virtues of style which I have assigned to him: purity of language, correct dialect, the presentation of ideas by means of standard, not figurative expressions; clarity, brevity, concision, terseness, vivid representation, the investment of every person with life and character, the pleasing arrangement of words after the manner of ordinary speech, the choice of arguments to suit the persons and the circumstances of the case, the ability to win over and persuade, charm and a sense of timing which regulates everything else. Anyone who learned these qualities from Lysias would improve his own style.original: (lang)
(lang) The stylistic principles of Greek Atticism in application to other languages, ''especially'' to Latin.
(lang) An expression or idiom characteristic of or peculiar to Attic Greek, ''especially'' an elegant and refined, if grammatically irregular, usage.
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(quote-journal) or Barnes (journalist)|Thomas Barnes|title=Theatrical Examiner, No. 137.|journal=Examiner (1808–1886)|The Examiner|number=280|page=298/1|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SMXPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA298&dq=%22al%22+%22ticisms%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdj9KAmt6DAxWglP0HHYjEBfYQ6AF6BAgHEAIv=onepage&q=%22al%22%20%22ticisms%22&f=false|text=Her mistakes, if (smc) makes any, are perceptible only to the musical pedant who thinks a deviation from a scientific canon ill compensated by the most fanciful beauties of execution. Such a man would accuse Thucydides of false grammar on account of his atticisms, or Homer of incorrect quantity for the occasional artful protraction of a short syllable.
(lang) A refined felicity or well-turned phrase, ''especially'' one deemed ungrammatical. (In Newcome, aposiopesis, dislocation, and attraction, respectively.)
(quote-book)|page=279|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tr47AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA279&dq=Atticism&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3gKDiht6DAxUuVUEAHaIaCiYQ6AF6BAgHEAIv=onepage&q=Atticism&f=false|text=There is an elegant Atticiſm which occurs Luke xiii. 9. “If it bear fruit, ''well''.” We find this figure of ſpeech in the Chaldee, Dan. iii. 15; and, I think, in the Hebrew, Exod. xxxii. 32: “Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their ſin, ''well''.”
(quote-book)|page=335|pageurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tr47AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA335&dq=Atticism&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3gKDiht6DAxUuVUEAHaIaCiYQ6AF6BAgHEAIv=onepage&q=Atticism&f=false|passage=''As for Ephraim'', their glory ſhall flee away as a bird: which…form reſembles Salluſt’s (lang) (Q); and that common Atticiſm, (lang) (Q).