atticism.
(Of thelat.)atticismus, and this of theGr. ? tt?(sµ?).
1. m. delicacy, elegance which characterized the writers and Athenian orators of the classical age.
2. m. This same delicacy of taste in writers and speakers of any age or country.
3. m. use of Greek imitating classical attic, in the postclassical Europe.
4. m. Ling. Giro or peculiar word of the attic dialect, used in later classical age by the aticista school.
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