Meanings
nounacyrology (uncountable)
- EarlyModernarchaicuncountableThe incorrect use of language.
Ancient commentators found the phrase distinctive, as well, but in a peculiar way: one of them labelled [one phrase] an instance of catachresis, a type of solecism. Similarly, Servius calls [another] an instance of acyrology, also a type of solecism.
2016, Joseph Farrell, “Ancient Commentaries on Theocritus’ Idylls and Virgil’s Eclogues”, in Christina S. Kraus, Christopher Stray, editors, Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre, →ISBN, page 402
Translations
Italian acirologia
- acirologiaincorrect use of language
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