propriety of language.
Coleridge.
Every good writer has much idiom.
Landor.
It is not by means of rules that such idioms as the following are made current: "I can make nothing of
it." "He treats his subject home." Dryden. "It is that within us that makes for righteousness." M. Arnold.
Gostwick (Eng. Gram.) 3. Dialect; a variant form of a language.
Syn. — Dialect. — Idiom, Dialect. The idioms of a language belong to its very structure; its dialects
are varieties of expression ingrafted upon it in different localities or by different professions. Each county
of England has some peculiarities of dialect, and so have most of the professions, while the great idioms
of the language are everywhere the same. See Language.
Idiomatic
(Id`i*o*mat"ic Id`i*o*mat"ic*al) a. 'idiwmatiko`s.]—> Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the
mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. — Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Idiomorphic
(Id`i*o*morph"ic) a. Idiomorphous.
Idiomorphous
(Id`i*o*morph"ous) a. [Gr. 'idio`morfos of peculiar form; 'i`dios peculiar + form.]
1. Having a form of its own.
2. (Crystallog.) Apperaing in distinct crystals; — said of the mineral constituents of a rock.
Idiomuscular
(Id`i*o*mus"cu*lar) a. [Idio- + muscular.] (Physiol.) Applied to a semipermanent contraction
of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
Idiopathetic
(Id`i*o*pa*thet"ic) a. Idiopathic. [R.]
Idiopathic
(Id`i*o*path"ic Id`i*o*path"ic*al) a. [Cf. F. idiopathique.] (Med.) Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing
a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; — opposed to symptomatic,
sympathetic, and traumatic. — Id`i*o*path"ic*al*ly, adv.
Idiopathy
(Id`i*op"a*thy) n.; pl. Idiopathies [Gr. 'i`dios proper, peculiar + to suffer: cf. F. idiopathie.]
1. A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection.
All men are so full of their own fancies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange
any words with a stranger.
Dr. H. More. 2. (Med.) A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.
Idiophanous
(Id`i*oph"a*nous) a. [Idio- + to appear.] (Crystallog.) Exhibiting interference figures without
the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.
Idioplasm
(Id"i*o*plasm) n. (Biol.) Same as Idioplasma.
