[f. Syriac, after a Gr. type *Συριάζειν, for Συρίζειν (see SYRISM).
Cf. the earlier SYRIACISM.]
A phrase or construction characteristic of the Syriac language; a Syriac idiom or expression.
1684. N. S., Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible, xvi. 151. It hath … many Hebraisms and Syriasms.
1725. Blackwall, Sacr. Class. (1727), 27. Hebraisms or Syriasms rather than Grecisms.
1789. G. Campbell, Four Gospels, I. i. 16. Words and phrases, which … might appear to resemble what has been accounted Hebraism or Syriasm in the New Testament.
1818. T. H. Horne, Introd. Stud. Holy Script., II. iii. § 2. I. 244. The existence of these Chaldaisms and Syriasms, affords a strong intrinsic proof of the genuineness and authenticity of the New Testament.
1907. F. C. Conybeare, in Expositor, July, 44. It shows none of the Syriasms so frequent in Armenian versions made from Syriac.
