[f. as prec. + -ISM.] An expression used by, or imitated from, Chaucer.
1593. Nashe, Strange News, Wks. 1883–4, II. 175. Newes, which if your worship (according to your wonted Chaucerisme) shall accept in good part.
1663. Fuller, Worthies (1811), II. 80 (D.). The many Chaucerisms used (for I will not say affected by him [Spenser]) are thought by the ignorant to be blemishes.
1851. Trench, Study of Words, v. 154. The employment of such ‘Chaucerisms.’
