Lexicographical Neighbors of Solecise
Literary usage of Solecise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Juvenal by Edward Walford (1872)
"... uncouth phrase Of some old canticle of Numa's days, Corrects her country
friends, and cannot hear Her husband solecise without a sneer." —Sat . vi. 434. ..."
2. Poets of the Younger Generation by William Archer (1902)
"... solecise as you will; make past-participles from nouns and verbs transitive
from adjectives; devise gins and springes for the tongue out of ..."
3. Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to by Peter Mark Roget (1858)
"V. To use bad or faulty grammar, to solecise, or commit a solecism. V. To parse,
punctuate. 668. SOLECISM, bad or false grammar, slip of the pen or tongue, ..."
4. Edmund Campion: A Biography by Richard Simpson (1896)
"Homer may sleep, and Campion may sometimes solecise. 33. The same. Editio posterior,
ab auctore multis aucta partibus et emendata. Mantua, 1620. 8vo. pp. ..."
5. The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, and of Aulus Persius Flaccus by Juvenal, Persius (1817)
"Corrects her country friends, and cannot hear Her husband solecise, without a
sneer ! A woman stops at nothing, when she wears Rich emeralds round her neck, ..."
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