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anidiomatical en · ADJ

Etymology

From an- + idiomatical.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Not idiomatic.
   • Because you would not say two times; it is anidiomatical. JOHNSON: Anidiomatical! TOOKE: We want the word; take it from me. It is not so, when or three comes between. JOHNSON: I should rather say twice or thrice. 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

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