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Ciceronical en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /sɪsəˈɹɒnɪkəl/ (UK)

Etymology

Either the Latin Cicerō (stem: Cicerōn-) or the Middle English Ciceroun suffixed with the English -ical.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) = Ciceronian
   • He had a very pleasant smile, had old Thomas Richardson, and a gracious way of performing his ciceronical duties. It was plainly a labor of love, due to the old mansion and the master who had made it famous. 1914, Western Christian Advocate, LXXX, page 10:
   • Hee and Isabel…began to be as Ciceronicall as they were amorous. 1590, Robert Greene, Never too Late, published 1600, page 32:
   • But this man’s words are spirit itself, and burn their niche in Time, to last as long as that will. Take two of them: “Soldiers, forty centuries look down upon you!” and again, “Behold the sun of Austerlitz!” When you speak, speak thus to men; such words are deeds; and come not as from one who beateth the air to the pitchpipe of the tibicen Ciceronical, but as the bullet to its butt; speak swordpoints, that press between the joints and marrow. 1891, Charles A. Ward, “Napoleonic Rule”, in Oracles of Nostradamus, page 251:

Forms

Relateds

cicerone · Ciceronian