Ciceronianism

English

Etymology

From Ciceronian +‎ -ism.

Noun

Ciceronianism (countable and uncountable, plural Ciceronianisms)

1. Imitation of, or resemblance to, the style or action of Cicero.
   • a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)