¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Idiotisms
1. idiotism [n] - See also: idiotism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idiotisms
Literary usage of Idiotisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Calcutta Christian Observer (1834)
"On idiotisms in the order and in the choice of words-—in connection with ... I.
idiotisms. II. Barbarisms. Every language has an idiom more or less peculiar ..."
2. English as She is Spoke by José da Fonseca, Pedro Carolino (1884)
"idiotisms and Proverbs. The necessity don't know the low. Few, few the bird make
her nest. He is not valuable to breat that he eat. ..."
3. New Elements of Conversation, in English and French: A Work Composed Upon ...by G. H. Poppleton, Stéphanie Félicité Genlis by G. H. Poppleton, Stéphanie Félicité Genlis (1825)
"THE publishers present with satisfaction a second edition of this useful collection
of French and English Dialogues and idiotisms, because they feel assured ..."
4. Lectures on the English Language by George Perkins Marsh (1887)
"So we have our idiotisms. For instance, the phrase, less common in American than
in English books, the project took air, that is, ..."
5. The American Educational Monthly (1871)
"The prevailing analogies of a tongue are not to be pressed, to the extinction of
those racy, forcible, often poetical peculiarities which we style idiotisms ..."
6. The Theological Works of Herbert Thorndike by Herbert Thorndike (1846)
"... none of the Apparatus at all, as in the other editions; no various readings
in any language ; no index, no idiotisms—the edition being abruptly put ..."
7. The New York Teacher, and the American Educational Monthly (1871)
"He has an unconquerable averson to anomalies and idiotisms. He sets high store
by precision and logical clearness. So do we ; the difference between us lies ..."
Other Resources:
