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Atticize, v.|ˈætɪsaɪz|
[ad. Gr. ἀττικίζειν: see -ize.]
Hence Atticizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1. intr. To side with or favour Athens.
1753W. Smith Thucyd. viii. (R.) Put to death..for atticizing. 1849Grote Greece ii. liv. VI. 618 The Thebans destroyed the walls of Thespiæ..on the charge of atticizing tendencies.
2. To affect Attic style; to conform to Athenian or (in wider sense) Greek habits, modes of thought, etc.
a. intr.
b. trans.; whence Atticized ppl. a.
1610Healey tr. Vives' Comm. St. Aug. City of God (1620) 631 Pherecrates, a man wholly atticizing. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. i. ii. 9 What is Plato but Moses Atticizing? 1846Grote Greece i. xi. I. 227 The Atticised worship of the Eleusinian Dêmêtêr. |