[f. Cilicia, in Asia Minor + -ISM.] A form of speech characteristic of Cilicia.

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1848.  J. Smith, Voy. & Shipwr. St. Paul, 1. Jerome … who wrote on the Cilicisms of St. Paul.

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1879.  Farrar, St. Paul, I. 27. Ibid. (1886), Hist. Interpr., 230.

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