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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Aeolism en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
From Aeolic + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The use of the Aeolic language or its syntactic structures.
This approach, however, of Aeolians to Ionians is ambiguous and accidental, and historical indications go far to show that their distinction was all but primitive; that Dorism developed independently from an Aeolism with which Ionism was already in marked contrast, at some point of earlier departure, rather than that Ionism and Dorism together were collateral shoots from an original main Aeolic stem.
1875, William Watkiss Lloyd, The age of Pericles, a history of the politics and arts of Greece:It should be remarked that Aeolism in Homer is seen not so much in a general modification of the Ionic dialect, as in the occasional employment of the forms and flexions regarded as characteristic of the Aeolic.
1876, William Walker Merry, James Riddell, Homer's Odyssey - Volume 1, page 196:
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(countable) A usage of Aeolic within a work in another language.
This ending may also be considered a mere Ionism or an Aeolism.
2012, Maren Niehoff, Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters, →ISBN, page 202:Cassola regards the short form as an Aeolism (cf. Chantraine I, 161-3), which from an epic point of view would be an archaism.
1978, Johannes Van Eck, The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, page 23:
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Aeolism en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
From Aeolus, the Greek god of wind.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A fictional religion in the works of Jonathan Swift that worships the wind in general, and rhetorical form over substance in particular.
Of course Aeolism is only a satirical invention, but it has a general application to all absurd philosophising (also to 'common sense' - a terrifying twist, this, uniquely Swiftian).
1975, Derek Kenneth Collett Todd, I am not Prince Hamlet, page 52:
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(broadly, uncountable) A tendency toward rhetorical embellishments.
After the pipes have their final victory over the Aeolistic William, Peter Stuyvesant comes to the head of the state. His measures against Aeolism are swift: he gives his councilors "abundance of fair long pipes" (p. 248) and makes "a hideous rout among the ingenious inventions and expedients of his learned predecessor -- demolishing his flag-staffs and wind-mills" (pp. 248-249).
1992, David Durant, “Aeolism in Knickerbocker's A History of New York”, in On Humor:Participant scores on one of the five personality traits, “Aeolism,” were consistently described as low compared with the other group members in all conditions.
2012 August, Tyler G Okimoto, Amy Wrzesniewski, “Effort in the face of difference: Feeling like a non-prototypical group member motivates effort”, in European Journal of Social Psychology, volume 42, number 5:Aeolism, or the emphasis on the form or sound of words per se rather than on their meaning or sense, presently flourishes under many dignified guises.
1965, Arnold M. Ludwig, The importance of lying, page 120:
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(countable) A reference to or instance of wind; windiness.
'Aeolisms abound in the course of the episode; 'big blow out,' 'the vent of his jacket,' 'windfall when he kicks out,' etc."
1996, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain, →ISBN:
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