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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 288 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IDIOM (Gr. t&%wµa, something See also:peculiar and See also:personal; lbws, one's own, personal) , a See also:form of expression whether in words, grammatical construction, phraseology, &c., which is peculiar to a See also:language; sometimes also a See also:special variety of a particular language, a See also:dialect.

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