Graecism

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noun

Greek characteristics or style
admiration for or imitation of these, as in sculpture or architecture
a form of words characteristic or imitative of the idiom of the Greek language

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Busiris is here probably an earlier and less accurate Graecism than Osiris for the name of the Egyptian god Usiri, like Bubastis, Buto, for the goddesses Ubasti and Uto.

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This was altered in one edition to gold chains, showing more regard to the metal of which the chains of aldermen are made than to the beauty of the Latinism and Graecism—nay, of figurative speech itself: Loetas segetes, glad, for making glad, &c.—P.

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Graecia Magna Graecize

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