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单词 epænetic
释义

epænetic

See also: epaenetic

English

Alternative forms

  • epænetic
  • epænetick (obsolete)
  • epænitic (erroneous)
  • epænitick (erroneous, obsolete)
  • epainetic
  • epainetick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπαινετικός (epainetikós), from ἐπαινέω (epainéō, I praise).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĕpēnĕʹtĭk, IPA(key): /ɛpiːˈnɛtɪk/

Adjective

epænetic (comparative more epænetic, superlative most epænetic)

  1. (rare) Encomiastic; laudatory; panegyrical; praiseful.[1]
    • 1800, Edward Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum, page xxviii:
      The Epænetic comprehends the hymn, the epithalamium, the genethliacon, or what elſe tends to the praiſe or congratulation of divine, or on earth eminent perſons.
    • 1850, The Quarterly Review, volume 86, pages 416–417:
      How and why Sir Thomas turned author is minutely told by himself. After the battle of Worchester, Sept. 3, 1651, his lodgings were sacked by some ‘ exquisite snaps and clean shavers, who handed over six score and eight quires and a half of his MS. to inferior and posterior uses;’ but happily ‘ one quaternion ’ was picked up in the street, and thence called Ekskubalauron — being ‘ the discovery in the kennel of a most exquisite Jewel, more precious than diamonds inchased in gold, the like whereof was never seen of any;’ a chosen specimen, in short, of his literary ‘ wares, brain‐babes, of far greater value than ever from the East Indies were brought in ships to Europe ’ — its ‘ scope ’ being — as he further explains — partly epænetick, partly doxologetickal.
    • 1919, W. Compton Leith, Domus Doloris, page 199 (John Lane company):
      It called for a very stalker’s skill to catch them off their guard; but there was a charm in the hard pursuit, and the practice of this epænetic became sport.
    • 1969, Edmund Gosse, More Books on the Table, page 307:
      The critics enquired whether the poets excelled in “ the Epænitick ” or “ the Bucolick ” style, not whether they achieved beauty of expression or spirituality of thought.

References

  1. “†epæˈnetic, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
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