Citations:solœcize

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 * 1708, Henry More, The Theological Works of the moſt Pious and Learned Henry More, Joseph Downing; Book I., Chapter IX., page #18:
 * But this being too looſe a Principle, and wholly unſatsifactory to our Adverſaries, to phanſie the Holy Writers to ſolœcize in their Language, when we do not like the Senſe ; he had better have take ſome other courſe more allowable to ſave us from the peril of Purgatory : and in my Judgment there are two, eith of which will ſuffice to ſence us from the Aſſaults of the Romaniſts.
 * 1777, Richard Bentley, A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols; page #230:
 * If theſe examples be not ſufficient to give Mr. B. ſome clearer apprehenſion, what it is to ſolœcize in the Attic way ; it is to no purpoſe to add more : but he muſt ſtill continue “ at a loſs for the meaning of this “ deep reflection.”