a. Now rare or Obs. Also 7 solœcisticall, 8–9 -al. [See prec. and -ICAL.] Solecistic.
(a) 1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. xxi. 272. Some long narrative, which was the Apology for the solœcisticall appearances of children.
1837. Foreign Q. Rev., XIX. 78. The miserable solecistical conceit of making the chimney-shafts resemble small Doric columns.
(b) 1725. Blackwall, Sacr. Classics (1727), I. 139. Then that saying of divine inspiration will be solecistical.
1778. Tyrwhitt, Chaucer’s C. Tales, V. 184–5. According to this hypothesis, the use of these combinations, with respect to the pronouns, is almost always solecistical.
1779. Johnson, L. P., Milton, Wks. 1781, I. 160. He [Milton] has enforced the charge of a solecism by an expression in itself grossly solecistical.
1818. Hallam, Mid. Ages (1871), II. 300, note. The nominative Trullo, though solœcistical, is used by ecclesiastical writers in English.
Hence Solecistically adv.
1722. Wollaston, Relig. Nat., 4. A few scatterd papers, in which I had formerly for my own use set down some of them (briefly, and almost solecistically).
