The Collaborative International Dictionary
Continental pronunciation \Continental pronunciation\ (of Latin and Greek.) A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pronunciation is often called Erasmian.
Usage examples of "erasmian".
Paul, was at this time the Erasmian one of an ethical, undogmatic faith.
Then there was a party of Erasmian reform, mainly intellectual but profoundly Christian.
His broad tolerance found its best, or only, support in the Erasmian tendencies of Coornheert.
Duke William of Cleves-Juelich-Berg had adopted an Erasmian compromise between Lutheranism and Romanism, in some respects resembling the course pursued by Henry.
Renaissance prepared the Reformation, that Luther had only hatched the Erasmian egg.
Peace was a value that in a short stretch of time had lost the humanist, Erasmian connotations that had previously made it the path of transformation.
Gospel, which perpetrates an inversion of its spirit, Bartleffs variation is genuinely evangelical in inspiration, as befits the Erasmian fool in Christ.