Atticism

[In Ger. atticism; Fr. attic is me; Port. atticismo; Gr. ἀττικισμός ( at tikis mos ) = (1) a siding with the A then i ans; (2) the Attic style; an atticism.] † 1. Attachment to the A then i an people. (Used specially in narratives of the Peloponnesian war.) "Tydius and his accomplices were put to death for Atticism ."- Hobbes : Thucydides, bk. viii. ( Richard son.) 2. A mode of expre ion characteristic of the Attic dialect; cla ic elegance; a well turned phrase. "They made sport, and I laughed they mis-pronounced, and I misliked and to make up the atticism , they were out, and I hi ed."- Milton : Apology for Smectymnuus . "There is an elegant Atticism which occurs, Luke xiii. 9, 'If it bear fruit, well ." " -Newcome : View of the Eng . Bib . Trans . , p. 279.