adoxographic
/eɪdɑkˈsɑɡɹəfik/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to adoxography; adoxographical.
Example Sentences
- "Excellent descriptive power and frequent brilliant lines in this adoxographic poem."
- "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 […]"
- "[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."
- "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" […]"
- "A more classical, adoxographic tone characterizes an encomium of the ass contained in Pero Mexía's 1547 Diálogos. In it the donkey is praised for its humility and integrity, as well as for its practicality: the she-ass's milk is recommended as both an antidote for poison and a skin cleanser, the animal is a good mount for soldiers, and even its meat is tasty."
- "We should wonder what this trade-off, of sermonis amari ('so acid a talker', i.e. '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."
Etymology
From adoxography + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /eɪdɑkˈsɑɡɹəfik/
- British English: /eɪdɒkˈsɒɡɹəfik/