单词 | aulicism |
释义 | aulicismn. Somewhat rare. 1. A courtly expression or turn of phrase. Also (as a mass noun): the use of such courtly language. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > fine phrasing > well-turned phrase lights1550 Atticism1612 aulicism1633 felicity1665 stroke1667 grace stroke1686 curiosa felicitas1752 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 15) 279 God affects not Aulicismes, and Courtly termes. 1711 Generous Rivals 13 I am not much surpriz'd, to find my self accosted with so many Aulicisms. 1966 D. L. Guss John Donne, Petrarchist ii. 27 Petrarch's linguistic stylization reflects Roman aulicism. 2009 M. S. Marchesi Eliot's Perpetual Struggle vii. 105 The aulicisms and the higher style proper to the language of courtiers bearing a message from the King. 2. A tendency or attitude amongst clergymen to become attached to the secular ways and values of court, or to seek political influence and power, at the expense of devotion to religious and spiritual matters. Now historical.Used especially with reference to Jesuit confessors attached to courts in Europe in the 17th cent. ΚΠ 1662 A. Petrie tr. C. Acquaviva in Compend. Hist. Catholick Church ii. 325 Secularity and Aulicism [L. Aulicismus] insinuating into the familiarity and favor of strangers, is a disease of our Society. 1883 H. P. Liddon tr. A. Rosmini Of Five Wounds of Holy Church iii. 104 Although now extinct outwardly, it [sc. the schism] still exists, its ill-omened spirit works continually under the disguise of Gallicanism and Aulicism [It. aulicismo]. 1902 Woodstock (Maryland) Lett. June 125 The positions at court [in the German Province] were very dangerous; not all confessors were proof against the many difficulties and some succumbed to the temptations of ‘aulicism’. 2016 N. Reinhardt Voices of Conscience xiii. 293 Capero took up an argument already made by the Jesuit Negroni in 1626, that the heresy of the prince was the outcome of clerical counsellors infected with ‘aulicism’ who distorted God's word to please their rulers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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