adoxograph
Syllables: adox·og·raphUK/eɪˈdɒksɒˌɡɹɑːf/US/eɪˈdɑksɑˌɡɹæf/
adoxograph noun: a work of adoxography.
Noun
adoxograph (plural adoxographs)
- A work of adoxography.
- Polycrates, disciple of Gorgias, wrote in praise of mice, pots, pebbles. Others of bees, salt, those are the Adoxographs. Dio Chrysostomos has a praise of mosquitoes, parrots, and hair. Lucian, praise of the fly.1989, Friedrich [Wilhelm] Nietzsche with Sander L. Gilman, Carole Blair, David J. Parent, editors & translators, Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press...
- [A]udiences laugh heartily because the adoxographs, if done with mock seriousness, are a broad form of irony, related to sarcasm. […] In the N-Town Passion Play I, Lucifer is an implied presenter of the play and an implied controller of its events. He addresses the audience directly and...2005, John W. Velz, “Adoxography as Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”, in Clifford Davidson, editor, The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages [AMS Studies in the...
Forms of adoxograph
| plural | adoxographs |
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Origin of adoxograph
From New Latin adoxus (“absurd, paradoxical”) from Ancient Greek ἄδοξος (ádoxos, “obscure, ignoble”) (from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δόξα (dóxa, “expectation”)) + -graph.
Questions about adoxograph
- What does adoxograph mean?
- Adoxograph means a work of adoxography.
- What part of speech is adoxograph?
- Adoxograph is a noun.
- How do you pronounce adoxograph?
- Adoxograph is pronounced /eɪˈdɒksɒˌɡɹɑːf/ (UK).
- What is the plural of adoxograph?
- The plural of adoxograph is adoxographs.
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