The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celticism
Celticism \Celt"i*cism\ (s[e^]l"t[i^]*s[i^]z'm), n.
A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language.
--Warton.
Wiktionary
celticism
n. A Celtic custom or idiom.
Wikipedia
Celticism
Celticism may refer to:
- a word or linguistic property adapted from a Celtic language (c.f. Anglicism, Germanism)
- List of English words of Celtic origin
- List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin
- Irish words used in the English language
- List of English words of Irish origin
- List of English words of Welsh origin
- Hiberno-English
- Kiltartanese
- political Pan-Celticism
- the ideology of Lega Nord which culturally identifies with the Celtic people
- the Romanticist Celtic revival (c.f. Orientalism)
- Celtism also known as Celtic Neopaganism
- The name of a CD released in 2011 by Robert Marr
Usage examples of "celticism".
The Scottish church may have looked back on Macbeth as one of the last representatives of the old Celticism and might have considered him in league with vague old magical and pagan practices.