[f. as prec. + -ISM: cf. mod.L. technicismus, Kant, 1790.] A technical term or expression, a technicality.
1799. Anna Seward, Lett. (1821), V. 263. Bewildered in a maze of scholastic technicisms.
1820. Jebb, Sacred Lit., I. 17. The technicism of Hebrew poetry, though altogether different from the prosodical technicism of the classics, abundantly distinguishes the composition from simple prose.
