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An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

s mode of speech. The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.

Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell.

m cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

A word, phrase, or idiom peculiar to Great Britain; any manner of using a word or words that is peculiar to Great Britain.

The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation. Goldsmith. The cant of any profession. Dryden.

A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language. Warton.

An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.

A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.

A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.

A Doric phrase or idiom.

A Doric phrase or idiom.

Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.

The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.

A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.

A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.

To conform to the French mode or idiom.

An idiom of the German language.

A Gothic idiom.