Ionicismn.
/ʌɪˈɒnᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /aɪˈɑnəˌsɪzəm/ Ionic style or character; a form or idiom characteristic of or restricted to the Ionic dialect. Cf. Ionism n.
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Graecism1570
Hellenism1609
Ionism1676
Doricism1698
Dorism1698
Ionicism1699
Aeolism1712
Greekism1803
Alexandrianism1822
Cilicism1848
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 391 Neither will I upon account of this Ionicism impeach those Poems [of Epimenides] as supposititious.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. To Rdr. p. vii The same bewitching Catholick Poet [sc. Alexander Pope] is satyriz'd..as having been such a Blockhead as not to have learn'd Ionicisms enough..to understand his Original Text of Homer.
1784 G. I. Huntingford Apol. Monostrophics 45 This editor of Anacreon indeed doubted the authenticity of the Odes..; but then his doubts arose..from a deficiency of Ionicism in them.
1828 I. Taylor Process Hist. Proof 306 He..restores the ionicisms only when he has the authority of MSS for so doing.
1892 Knowledge (N.Y.) 27 Aug. The fragments of his poems quoted by ancient writers are full of Ionicisms.
1907 K. J. Freeman Schools of Hellas ii. ix. 252 Sparta becomes the philosopher's ideal, and it is the Spartan canon that Plato tries to impose on Ionicism running riot.
1946 R. Carpenter Folk Tale, Fiction, & Saga in Homeric Epics (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. XX) iv. 89 They may be split up..according to the Aeolicisms and Ionicisms of the language.
2005 F. R. del Canto tr. F. R. Adrados Hist. Greek Lang. i. vi. 95 At a certain point there was conflict between..Aeolicism and Ionicism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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