Crossword-Solution: ATTICISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Atticism | n. | A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians. |
| Atticism | n. | The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| ELEGANCE of speech | 1 answer |
| SPEECH, elegance of | 1 answer |
| SPEECH, extreme elegance of | 1 answer |
| wittiness | 60 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with ATTICISM (5)
Thomas de Keyser, who understood better than any one else the kind of quaint new Atticism which had found its way into the world over those waste salt marshes, wondering whether quite its finest type as he understood it could ever actually be seen there, saw it at last, in lively motion, in the person of Sebastian van Storck, and desired to paint his portrait.
You presuppose your reader to have refinement and educated feeling, artistic acuteness, a fine perception, and a certain Atticism.
Some of them, in which the black keys are exclusively taken, are acute and subtle, and remind us of the character of his own gaiety, lover of atticism as he was, subject only to the higher emotions, recoiling from all vulgar mirth, from coarse laughter, and from low enjoyments, as we do from those animals more abject than venomous, whose very sight causes the most nauseating repulsion in tender and sensitive natures.
The same summer the Thebans dismantled the wall of the Thespians on the charge of Atticism, having always wished to do so, and now finding it an easy matter, as the flower of the Thespian youth had perished in the battle with the Athenians.
Already defeated in so many battles, they were now also at discord among themselves; the execution of the party of Tydeus, son of Ion, by Pedaritus upon the charge of Atticism, followed by the forcible imposition of an oligarchy upon the rest of the city, having made them suspicious of one another; and they therefore thought neither themselves not the mercenaries under Pedaritus a match for the enemy.