Adjective : idiomatic French. ,idiomatic writing; an idiomatic composer. From Dictionary.com.
Unlike other spam filters Antispam Marisuite takes into consideration much more statistical parameters of messages such as idiomatical constructions, message's route and sender's IP address, presence of phishing links, parameters of attached pictures and so on. From Wordnik.com. [2BakSa.Net] Reference
An idiomatical expression which is not an anomaly, can be analyzed. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
The expressions, "generally speaking," and "considering their means," under number 4, are idiomatical and anomalous, the subjects to the participles not being specified. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
Conventional and idiomatical Italian forms have been expressly avoided. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
Mr. Linden, it was a providential thing, that you should come along at this idiomatical moment. From Wordnik.com. [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference
E.., literary critic of Philadelphia, and sole proprietor of the English language in its grammatical and idiomatical purity; to P. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
Not that the phrase is at all to my liking: for to say a man is fallen in love, — or that he is deeply in love, — or up to the ears in love, — and sometimes even over head and ears in it, — carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man: — this is recurring again to. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. From Wordnik.com. [Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1] Reference
It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Addison, 1672-1719] Reference
It was, apparently, his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction; he is, therefore, sometimes verbose in his transitions and connexions, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
It is the tragedy of an unlearned human society; it is the tragedy of a civilization in which grammar, and the relations of sounds and abstract notions to each other have sufficed to absorb the attention of the learned, -- a civilization in which the parts of speech, and their relations, have been deeply considered, but one in which the social elements, the parts of life, and their unions, and their prosody, have been left to spontaneity, and empiricism, and all kinds of rude, arbitrary, idiomatical conjunctions, and fortuitous rules; a civilization in which the learning of 'WORDS' is put down by the reporter -- invented -- and the learning of 'THINGS' -- omitted. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference
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