Definition of Atticizing

1. Verb. (present participle of Atticize) ¹

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Definition of Atticizing

1. atticize [v] - See also: atticize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atticizing

attesteth
attesting
attestive
attestor
attestors
attests
attic
attic fan
atticism
atticisms
atticist
atticists
atticize
atticized
atticizes
atticizing
atticky
atticless
atticlike
atticomastoid
atticotomy
attics
attiguous
attiguousness
attilas
attinge
attinged
attinging
attire
attired

Literary usage of Atticizing

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 Atticizing of dialect authors in the form, of paraphrases which we meet in Plato, Aristotle, ... Л is sometimes guilty of Atticizing, eg on IX 7, ..."

2. A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian by Wilmer Cave France Wright (1907)
"He saw that it was to the Atticizing rhetoricians that one must look for the revival of Greek prose and the return to Attic models. In the following century ..."

3. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1910)
"Here we fear no defacement of the autograph by the hands of "correcting" or "Atticizing" scribes. Unfortunately the inscriptions have ..."

4. M. Tulli Ciceronis Ad. M. Brutum Orator by Marcus Tullius Cicero (1885)
"Thus, in practice, he followed his natural bent, though, in theory, he sided with the Atticizing aims of the Rhodian eclectics. And not only so, ..."

5. Hellenistic Relief Molds from the Athenian Agora by Clairève Grandjouan (1989)
"The possible implications of the variety and luxury of Attic and Atticizing objects on the northern shores of the Black Sea are briefly discussed below (pp. ..."

6. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... thinking that ho was now evidently Atticizing, he, wishing, as it seemed, to clear himself to them of ..."

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