请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 Aeolistic
释义

Aeolistic

See also: aeolistic

English

Alternative forms

  • aeolistic

Etymology

Coined by Jonathan Swift from Aeolus, the Greek god of wind.

Adjective

Aeolistic (comparative more Aeolistic, superlative most Aeolistic)

  1. Pertaining to superfluous rhetorical flourishes; long-winded; bombastic.
    • 1965, Arnold M. Ludwig, The importance of lying, page 121:
      The propagandists, advertisers, diplomats, lawyers, politicians, and academicians rank high in the Aeolistic hierarchy, and their distorted and empty pronouncements currently play an important role in determining and forming our system of values and beliefs.
    • 1972, James Leslie Woodress, American Literary Scholarship, page 181:
      This makes the narrator intentionally complex: "The Aeolistic narrator is a historian whose work involves, as an allegory, a satiric attack on political Aeolism and includes, as a casebook of bombast, a similar attack on Aeolistic historians..."
    • 1992, David Durant, “Aeolism in Knickerbocker's A History of New York”, in On Humor:
      Even his letters, on the few occasions when he has recourse to such devices, are free of Aeolistic flourishes: "neither couched in bad Latin, nor yet graced by rhetorical tropes" (p. 252)

Anagrams

  • socialite
随便看

 

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法,是外语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/8/2 1:04:19