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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Asteism

As′te·ism (ăs′tē·ĭz'm), n. [Gr. ἀστεϊσμός refined and witty talk, fr. ἀστεῖος of the town, polite, witty, fr. ἄστυ city: cf. F. astéisme.] (Rhet.) Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.