adoxographic
Syllables: adox·og·ra·phicUK/eɪdɒkˈsɒɡɹəfik/US/eɪdɑkˈsɑɡɹəfik/
adoxographic adjective: of or pertaining to adoxography; adoxographical.
Adjective
adoxographic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to adoxography; adoxographical.
- Excellent descriptive power and frequent brilliant lines in this adoxographic poem.1939, William Bradley Otis with Morriss H. Needleman, Outline-history of English Literature, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, →OCLC, page 127
- It had furnished material for the adoxographic exercises of Polycrates, Lucian, and Philostratus, and for the scepticism of Sextus Empiricus; similarly, it became a part of the stock of sixteenth century paradossi writers such as Ortensio Lando […]1959, Cesare Barbieri Courier, volume 2, numbers 1–2, Hartford, Conn.: Cesare Barbieri Center of Italian Studies at Trinity College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4
- Synonyms:
- adoxographical
Examples of adoxographic in a sentence
- [T]he adoxographic prettying up which he [Ben Jonson] indulged in merely drew his characters closer to the speech and manners of their courtly parallels.1975, Dale B. J. Randall, Jonson's Gypsies Unmasked: Background and Theme of the Gypsies Metamorphos'd, Durham, N.C.: Duke University...
- Huntly, who might be supposed to have overheard a rehearsal of the presentation, indulges in some adoxographic praise of their "rare discord of bells, pipes and tabors" […]1986, Dale B. J. Randall, "Theatres of Greatness": A Revisionary View of Ford's Perkin Warbeck [ELS Monograph Series; 37], Victoria, B.C....
- A more classical, adoxographic tone characterizes an encomium of the ass contained in Pero Mexía's 1547 Diálogos.1991, Adrienne Laskier Martín, Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 141:
- 'bitter whine'), v. 7, in sermo, has to say to the presentation of early Horatian poetics: the abrasive sting of an adoxographic poetry after Callimachus.1998, John [Graham Wilmot] Henderson, Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...
Synonyms of adoxographic
Origin of adoxographic
From adoxography + -ic.
Questions about adoxographic
- What does adoxographic mean?
- Adoxographic means of or pertaining to adoxography; adoxographical.
- How do you use adoxographic in a sentence?
- [T]he adoxographic prettying up which he [Ben Jonson] indulged in merely drew his characters closer to the speech and manners of their courtly parallels.
- What part of speech is adoxographic?
- Adoxographic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce adoxographic?
- Adoxographic is pronounced /eɪdɒkˈsɒɡɹəfik/ (UK).
Words near adoxographic in the dictionary
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