Syriasm
(ˈsɪrɪæz(ə)m)
[f. Syriac, after a Gr. type *συριάζειν, for συρίζειν (see Syrism).
Cf. the earlier Syriacism.]
A phrase or construction characteristic of the Syriac language; a Syriac idiom or expression.
| 1684 N. S. Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible xvi. 151 It hath..many Hebraisms and Syriasms. 1725 Blackwall Sacr. Class. (1727) 27 Hebraisms or Syriasms rather than Grecisms. 1789 G. Campbell Four Gospels I. i. 16 Words and phrases, which..might appear to resemble what has been accounted Hebraism or Syriasm in the New Testament. 1818 T. H. Horne Introd. Stud. Holy Script. ii. iii. §2. I. 244 The existence of these Chaldaisms and Syriasms, affords a strong intrinsic proof of the genuineness and authenticity of the New Testament. 1907 F. C. Conybeare in Expositor July 44 It shows none of the Syriasms so frequent in Armenian versions made from Syriac. |