an appellation given to the language of a province, in so far as it differs from that of the whole kingdom. The term, however, is more particularly used in speaking of the ancient Greek, whereof there were four dialects, the Attic, Ionic, Æolic, and Doric, each of which was a perfect language in its kind, that took place in certain countries, and had peculiar beauties.

**IALOGISM**, in rhetoric, is used for the soliloquy of persons deliberating with themselves. See **SOLILOQUIY**.