nicety
nicety
subs.
See niceness.
To a nicety: use adv., P. and V. ἀκρῑβῶς.
subs.
See niceness.
To a nicety: use adv., P. and V. ἀκρῑβῶς.
NICETY
Accuracy cura accuratio (the latter Cic. Brut. 67 238 mira accuratio in componendis rebus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) cura et diligentia: subtilitas (acuteness subtilty; e.g. with mathematical nicety geometrica subtilitate docere aliquid): sometimes diligentia (close application and attention). With the greatest nicety accuratissime exactissime or sometimes diligentissime: nicety of style loquendi elegantia; urbanitas (opposed to rustica asperitas): niceties of words argutiae; spinae; dumeta (hair-splitting distinctions especially in philosophy). PROV. I shall not stand upon niceties per me sint omnia protinus alba (Persius).
Niceties = delicacies etc cuppedia (plur.) or cuppediae; cibi delicatiores; res ad epulandum exquisitissimae; bonae res (Nep. Ages. 8 5); gulae irritamenta.
Accuracy cura accuratio (the latter Cic. Brut. 67 238 mira accuratio in componendis rebus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) cura et diligentia: subtilitas (acuteness subtilty; e.g. with mathematical nicety geometrica subtilitate docere aliquid): sometimes diligentia (close application and attention). With the greatest nicety accuratissime exactissime or sometimes diligentissime: nicety of style loquendi elegantia; urbanitas (opposed to rustica asperitas): niceties of words argutiae; spinae; dumeta (hair-splitting distinctions especially in philosophy). PROV. I shall not stand upon niceties per me sint omnia protinus alba (Persius).
Niceties = delicacies etc cuppedia (plur.) or cuppediae; cibi delicatiores; res ad epulandum exquisitissimae; bonae res (Nep. Ages. 8 5); gulae irritamenta.
nicety:
I. Precise accuracy: subtīlĭtas: v.EXACTNESS , ACCURACY . Phr.: to a n.: (1). ad or in unguem (strictly with ref. to the sculptor passing his nail over the smoothed work): the sutures of the skull are joined to a n., suturae capitis in unguem committuntur, Cels. 8, 1, ad init.: Hor. S. 1, 5, 32 (ad unguem): Col. (2). ad amussim (also written as one word, admussim: lit. according to the rule or square): the number is not to a n., numerus non est ad a., Varr. R. R. 2, 1, ad fin.: Gell.: also, examussim, Pl. Most. 1, 2, 19; Men. prol. 50. See also, EXACTLY , ACCURATELY .
II. Fastidiousness; being over particular:
1. fastīdium (esp. in food): such n. as to refuse to touch (certain food), tantum f., ut nollent attingere, Sen. N. Q. 3, 18, 2: Cic.
2. ēlĕgantia (usu. in good sense): Pl. Mil. 4, 6, 20 (with ref. to personal appearance): v.REFINEMENT .
3. mōrōsĭtas (over-scrupulousness): Join: affectatio et morositas nimia (de stilo), Suet. Tib. 70.
III. In pl. only, excessive refinements: perh. argūtiae, arum (cf. Cic. Am. 13, 45, nihil est quod illi non persequantur suis argutiis): or, spīnae (thorny subtleties, esp. in logic): n.s of division and definition, spinae partiendi et definiendi, Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, init.
I. Precise accuracy: subtīlĭtas: v.
II. Fastidiousness; being over particular:
1. fastīdium (esp. in food): such n. as to refuse to touch (certain food), tantum f., ut nollent attingere, Sen. N. Q. 3, 18, 2: Cic.
2. ēlĕgantia (usu. in good sense): Pl. Mil. 4, 6, 20 (with ref. to personal appearance): v.
3. mōrōsĭtas (over-scrupulousness): Join: affectatio et morositas nimia (de stilo), Suet. Tib. 70.
III. In pl. only, excessive refinements: perh. argūtiae, arum (cf. Cic. Am. 13, 45, nihil est quod illi non persequantur suis argutiis): or, spīnae (thorny subtleties, esp. in logic): n.s of division and definition, spinae partiendi et definiendi, Cic. Tusc. 4, 5, init.