"Atticize" is a word in ENGLISH
To side with the Athenians.
To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the
customs or modes of thought of the Athenians.
To conform or make conformable to the language,
customs, etc., of Attica.
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Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece.
Read the complete definitionA native or citizen of Athens.
Read the complete definitionAn Athenian; an Athenian author.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic …
Read the complete definitionThe style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.
Read the complete definitionA favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians.
Read the complete definitionOne who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.
Read the complete definitionRelating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.
Read the complete definitionThe public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
Read the complete definitionAn Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian.
Read the complete definitionAny law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to …
Read the complete definitionA member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to …
Read the complete definitionA proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute.
Read the complete definitionA galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.
Read the complete definitionA celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
Read the complete definitionAn Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.
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