Grámmar. n.s. [grammaire, French; grammatica, Latin; γραμματικὴ.]
- The science of speaking correctly; the art which teaches the relation of words to each other.
We make a countryman dumb, whom we will not allow to speak but by the rules of grammar. Dryden's Dufresnoy.
Men, speaking language according to the grammar rules of that language, do yet speak improperly of things. Locke.
- Propriety or justness of speech; speech according to grammar.
Varium & mutabile semper femina, is the sharpest satire that ever was made on woman; for the adjectives are neuter, and animal must be understood to make them grammar. Dryden.
- The book that treats of the various relations of words to one another.
Varium & mutabile semper femina means “woman is ever a fickle and changeable thing.”