Word Meanings - ITALICISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism. 2. The use of Italics.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• IDIOMORPHOUS
  Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock. (more info) 1. Having a form of its own.
• IDIOM
  1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• ITALIAN
  Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.
• IDIOMORPHIC
  Idiomorphous.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• PHRASEOLOGIST
  A collector or coiner of phrases.
• PHRASELESS
  Indescribable. Shak.
• IDIOMUSCULAR
  Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• IDIOMATIC; IDIOMATICAL
  Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. -- Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• ITALIANISM
  1. A word, phrase, or idiom, peculiar to the Italians; an Italicism. 2. Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy.
• PHRASEOGRAM
  A symbol for a phrase.
• ITALIANATE
  To render Italian, or conformable to Italian customs; to Italianize. Ascham.
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• PHRASEOLOGY
  1. Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style. Most completely national in his . . . phraseology. I. Taylor. 2. A collection of phrases; a phrase book. Syn. -- Diction; style. See Diction.
• PHRASE
  A short clause or portion of a period. Note: A composition consists first of sentences, or periods; these are subdivided into sections, and these into phrases. Phrase book, a book of idiomatic phrases. J. S. Blackie. (more info) 1. A
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• BROMIDIOM
  A conventional comment or saying, such as those characteristic of bromides.
• PERIPHRASE
  The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey.
• HYPIDIOMORPHIC
  Partly idiomorphic; -- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form. -- Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.
• METAPHRASE
  paraphrase; meta` beyond, over + fra`zein to speak: cf. F. 1. A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden. 2. An answering phrase; repartee. Mrs. Browning.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• PARAPHRASER
  One who paraphrases.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• METAPHRASED
  Translated literally.
• PARAPHRASE
  A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation