Latinicaladj.
/ləˈtɪnɪkəl/ = Latinic adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > laboured or pedantic > Latinizing or Latinized
Latinizing1642
Latinized1807
hyperlatinistic1819
Latinistic1886
Latinical1892
Latinate1904
1892 Forum (N.Y.) July 585 He [sc. Hardy] is, in point of diction, the most Latinical writer we have had since Dryden and Milton.
1919 J. C. Mendenhall Aureate Terms i. 7 Such long and supposedly elegant words have been dubbed ‘aureate terms’, because..they represent a kind of verbal gilding of literary style. The phrase may be traced back..in the sense of long Latinical words of learned aspect, used to express a comparatively simple idea.
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adj.1892- to feign to oneself
- to feign upon, against
- to felt together
- to felter together
- to fence
- to fence a band
- to fence off
- to fence out
- to fence the tables
- to fence with
- to fend and prove
- to fend back
- to fend for
- to fend for oneself
- to feoff one person to the use of
- to feoff to the use of
- to fere to god
- to ferret about
- to ferret out
- to ferret up and down
- to fester into
- to fet again
- to fet in
- to fet off
- to fetch a fetch