Ciceronianism

English

Etymology

Ciceronian +‎ -ism

Noun

Ciceronianism (countable and uncountable, plural Ciceronianisms)

  1. Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action of Cicero.
    • Sir Philip Sidney
      great study in Ciceronianism, the chief abuse of Oxford
  2. A Ciceronian phrase or expression.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Ciceronianism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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