| 单词 | attic salt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAttic salt 2. Having characteristics peculiarly Athenian; hence, of literary style, etc.: Marked by simple and refined elegance, pure, classical. Attic salt or Attic wit [after classical Latin sal Atticum; compare French sel attique (1668)] : refined, delicate, poignant wit. Attic faith [after classical Latin Attica fidēs; compare French foi attique (1662 or earlier)] : inviolable faith. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun] > particular kinds of wit bavin wits1598 Attic salt1633 water-wit1658 Latin-wit1670 sheer wit1672 sea-wit1695 razor wit1786 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] fairOE facundc1381 rhetorian?c1400 facundious1430 rhetoricalc1450 elegantc1475 rhetorial1521 concinnate1548 humane1552 concinne1569 Attic1633 compt1633 concinnated1868 stylish1892 Atticistic1919 1633 Battle of Lutzen in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 185 Written in a stile so attick..that it may well be called the French Tacitus. 1738 A. Pope One Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty Eight Dialogue II 7 While Roman Spirit charms, and Attic Wit. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. iii. 27 Triumph swam in my father's eyes, at the repartee—the Attic salt brought water into them. 1830 T. Hamilton Cyril Thornton (1845) 49 The true attic pronunciation inculcated in Mrs. Blenkinsop's academy. 1864 M. Arnold in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 164 Well, but Addison's prose is Attic prose. < as lemmas |
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