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idiomatic, a.|ɪdɪəʊˈmætɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἰδιωµατικ-ός peculiar, characteristic, f. ἰδίωµα (ἰδιώµατ-) idiom. Cf. F. idiomatique (Littré).]
1. Peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language; pertaining to or exhibiting the expressions, constructions, or phraseology approved by the peculiar usage of a language, esp. as differing from a strictly grammatical or logical use of words; vernacular; colloquial.
1712Addison Spect. No. 285 ⁋4 Since..Phrases..used in ordinary Conversation contract a kind of Meanness by passing through the Mouths of the Vulgar, a Poet should take particular Care to guard himself against Idiomatick Ways of Speaking. 1784tr. De Lolme's Const. Eng. Life 2, Pure idiomatic and attractive English. 1839H. Rogers Ess. II. iii. 136 The language of familiar dialogue and colloquial pleasantry..is always in a high degree idiomatic, both in the terms and phrases employed, and in the construction. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 419 Hegel..thought..he gave his philosophy a truly German character by the use of idiomatic German words.
†b. Peculiar to one person, individual. Obs.
1765Hurd Mor. & Polit. Dial. Pref. 42 The idiomatic differences of expression, which flow not from the manners, but from some degree of study and affectation.
2. Given to or marked by the use of idioms peculiar to, or approved by, the usage of the language.
1839Hallam Hist. Lit. iv. vii. §32 IV. 529 They were more strictly idiomatic and English than their predecessors. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. 74 note, Like most idiomatic, as distinguished from correct writers, he [Dryden] knew very little about the language historically or critically.
So idioˈmatical a. = prec. Hence idioˈmatically adv., in an idiomatic manner. idioˈmaticalness, the condition of being idiomatic.
1727Bailey vol. II, Idiomatical..Idiomatically. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy VI. xxxvii, To say a man is fallen in love..carries an idiomatical kind of implication that love is a thing below a man. 1773Ld. Monboddo Language (1774) I. i. viii. 99 Qualities that are accidental, or idiomatical, that is, peculiar to the individual. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Addison Wks. III. 110 If his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. 1840De Quincey Rhetoric Wks. XI. 70 Men wrote..idiomatically, because they wrote naturally and without affectation. 1898F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) LXVI. 341/3 Its character..makes nothing either for or against the idiomaticalness of in our midst. |