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empaestic

empaestic adjective: embossed, especially of Ancient Greek art.

Adjective

empaestic (comparative more empaestic, superlative most empaestic)

  1. (rare) Embossed, especially of Ancient Greek art.
    • Semper called attention to the empaestic character of the reliefs, and his remarks have often been repeated.1897, “Two Reliefs from Assos”, in American journal of archaeology, page 512
    • The empaestic pictures of the Jews in the minds of those who dislike them are seldom devoid of any grain of truth: yet such images are always falsifications of the truth.1949, Jewish Affairs, volume 4, page 11

Forms of empaestic

comparativemore empaestic
superlativemost empaestic
alternative formempaistic

Origin of empaestic

From Ancient Greek ἐμπαιστικός (empaistikós, “embossed”), from ἐμπαίω (empaíō), from παίω (paíō, “strike”).

Questions about empaestic

What does empaestic mean?
Empaestic means embossed, especially of Ancient Greek art.
What part of speech is empaestic?
Empaestic is an adjective.

Words near empaestic in the dictionary

  1. empacket
  2. empacketed
  3. empacketing
  4. empackets
  5. empadão
  6. empaestic
  7. empagliflozin
  8. empair
  9. empaire
  10. empaired
  11. empaires

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