Graecism
Britishnoun
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Greek characteristics or style
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admiration for or imitation of these, as in sculpture or architecture
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a form of words characteristic or imitative of the idiom of the Greek language
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Busiris is here probably an earlier and less accurate Graecism than Osiris for the name of the Egyptian god Usiri, like Bubastis, Buto, for the goddesses Ubasti and Uto.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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