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Definition of Solecize
1. v. i. To commit a solecism.
Definition of Solecize
1. Verb. (intransitive) To commit a solecism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Solecize
1. to use solecisms [v -CIZED, -CIZING, -CIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solecize
Literary usage of Solecize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... Corrects her country friends, and cannot hear Her husband solecize without a
sneer." It may be that the horror of learned women which was affected by ..."
2. Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget, Samuel Romilly Roget (1879)
"V. use -bad, - faulty- grammar ; solecize, commit a solecism ; murder the
I -king's, - queen's- English ; break Pria- ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"whiff, puff. 2. See WIND. blunder, vi 1. err, slip, bungle, boggle (colloq.),
foozle (slang or often cant and spec.); spec, solecize, muff. ..."
4. Authors' & Printers' Dictionary: A Guide for Authors, Editors, Printers by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"solecize, not -ise. solemnize, not -ise. solen, a mollusc. sol-fa (mus.) (hyphen).
Solicitor-General (caps., hyphen); abbr.Sol.-Gen. solicitude, in Fr. ..."
5. The Organon, Or: Logical Treatises, of Aristotle. With the Introduction of by Aristotle (1902)
"... seems to solecize but does not.i Hence it is clear that a certain art can
produce this ; wherefore many arguments which do not infer a solecism, ..."
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