acyrology

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  • IPA(key): /ˌæsɪˈɹɒləd͡ʒi/

Noun

acyrology (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly Early Modern, now rare) The incorrect use of language.
    • 2016, Joseph Farrell, “Ancient Commentaries on Theocritus’ Idylls and Virgil’s Eclogues”, in Christina S. Kraus, Christopher Stray, editors, Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre, →ISBN, page 402:
      Ancient commentators found the phrase distinctive, as well, but in a peculiar way: one of them labelled [one phrase] an instance of catachresis, a type of solecism. Similarly, Servius calls [another] an instance of acyrology, also a type of solecism.

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