aeolism

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The use of the Aeolic language or its syntactic structures.

   “It should be remarked that Aeolism in Homer is seen not so much in a general modification of the Ionic dialect, as in the occasional employment of the forms and flexions regarded as characteristic of the Aeolic.”

2. isim A usage of Aeolic within a work in another language.

   “Cassola regards the short form as an Aeolism (cf. Chantraine I, 161-3), which from an epic point of view would be an archaism.”

3. isim A fictional religion in the works of Jonathan Swift that worships the wind in general, and rhetorical form over substance in particular.

   “Of course Aeolism is only a satirical invention, but it has a general application to all absurd philosophising (also to 'common sense' - a terrifying twist, this, uniquely Swiftian).”

4. isim A tendency toward rhetorical embellishments.

   “Aeolism, or the emphasis on the form or sound of words per se rather than on their meaning or sense, presently flourishes under many dignified guises.”

5. isim A reference to or instance of wind; windiness.

   “'Aeolisms abound in the course of the episode; 'big blow out,' 'the vent of his jacket,' 'windfall when he kicks out,' etc."”

6. isim Alternative form of Aeolism.

   “Examines features of Homeric language, especially the question of aeolisms and fixed epithets, and concludes that some Homeric words were preserved from the Mycenaean age as a result of oral epic technique, a conclusion later supported by decipherment of Linear B.”