solecist
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
solecist (plural solecists)
- (obsolete, rare) One who commits a solecism.
- 1725, Anthony Blackwall, The Sacred Classics Defended And Illustrated:
- Shall a noble writer, and an inspired noble writer, be called a solecist, and barbarian, for giving a new turn to a word so agreeable to the analogy and genius of the Greek tongue?
- 1887, The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health:
- Let me, therefore, urge you, if you ever feel condemned by such yielding, to become a solecist and wilfully and determinately break those laws of society that your conscience can not approve.
- 1890, The Alpha Phi Quarterly:
- Too often is the college graduate a solecist through her ignorance of the customs and usages of that class whose life is made up of the minutiae of politeness.
Adjective[edit]
solecist (comparative more solecist, superlative most solecist)
- (obsolete, rare) Having the characteristics of a solecism.
- 2001, Scripta Classica Israelica:
- […] is another solecist quotation.
References[edit]
- “solecist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.