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An idiom of the Greek language; a Hellenism. Addison.

, etc., with a nominative and followed by the infinitive without to, are well established idiomatic forms. The original construction was that of the dative with forms of be, followed by the infinitive. See Had better, under Better. And lever me is be pore and trewe. [And more agreeable to me it is to be poor and true.]…

A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.

To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic. J. R. Smith.

A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism. Addison.

Pertaining to the Hellenists. Hellenistic language, dialect, or idiom, the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of the Septuagint.

An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish. Todd.

A Spanish idiom or mode of speech. Keightley.

An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language. Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented. M. Hale.

Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.

he result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.

A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism.

A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.

A quality, idiom, or peculiarity characteristic of the Japanese or their products, esp. in art.

Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. "A barbarous jargon." Macaulay. "All jargon of the schools." Prior. The jargon which serves the traffickers. Johnson.

n, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom. Latin Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Western or Roman Catholic Church, as distinct from the Greek or Eastern Church. -- Latin cross. See Illust. 1 of Cross. -- Latin races, a designation sometimes loosely given to certain nati…

A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. "Latinistic words." Fitzed. Hall.

The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley.