Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
solecistic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to, or involving, a
solecism ;incorrect .
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Examples
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But as Nemesis is always on the watch, it is memorable that he has enforced the charge of a solecism by an expression in itself grossly solecistical, when for one of those supposed blunders, he says, as Ker, and I think some one before him, has remarked, propino te grammatistis tuis vapulandum. "
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley Samuel Johnson 1746
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