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Doric, a. and n.|ˈdɒrɪk|
[ad. L. Dōric-us, a. Gr. Δωρικός pertaining to Doris: cf. prec.]
A. adj.
1. a. = Dorian; of or pertaining to the Dorians.
1569Spenser Visions of Bellay ii. in Theat. Worldlings, Fashiond were they all in Dorike wise. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 296 Historiographers declare that Orpheus..wrote in the Dorick dialect. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxiii. 534 The Phrygian mode was religious; the Lydian, plaintive; the Doric, martial.
b. Of a dialect, etc.: Broad, not refined; rustic.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. (1676) 5/2 Those other faults of barbarism, Dorick dialect, extemporanean style, tautologies. 1637Milton Lycidas 189 With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. 1855J. F. F. in J. Wilson's Noct. Ambr. (1868) I. Pref. 17 There was a homely heartiness of manner about Hogg and a Doric simplicity in his address. 1889Athenæum 2 Mar. 281/3 All this was said..in the Doric dialect of the Lake District.
2. Arch. The name of one of the three Grecian orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian), of which it is the oldest, strongest, and simplest.
[1563Shute Archit. E iv b, Tuscana, Dorica, Ionica, Corinthia, and Composita, increase their heightes by Diameters.] 1614Selden Titles Hon. Ded. A ij a, Architecture of olde Temples..was either Dorique, Jonique, or Corinthian according to the Deity's seuerall nature. 1667Milton P.L. i. 714 Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architrave. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 491 The style of this structure is..the Grecian Doric.
B. n.
1. a. The Doric dialect of ancient Greek. b. A ‘broad’ or rustic dialect of English, as that of the North of England, Scotch, etc.
1837Penny Cycl. IX. 90/2 The choruses in the Attic plays are written in a kind of Doric. 1870Ramsay Remin. v. 127 ‘My Lord’, commenced John, in his purest Doric..‘I wad hae thocht naething o't’. 1872C. Gibbon For the King iii, The good doctor dropped into the broadest Doric.
2. The Doric order of architecture.
1812J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 170. 1838 J. L. Stephens Trav. Greece, etc. 18/1 A small but beautiful specimen of the pure Doric.
3. Typogr. (See quots.)
1857Spec. Printing Types (H. W. Caslon & Co.), Pearl Doric, No. 2... Brevier Doric, No. 1... Nonpareil Doric, No. 1... Pearl Doric, No. 1. 1888C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 33 Doric fount, a particular kind of sans-serif type used for display work. 1900T. L. De Vinne Pract. Typogr. I. 325 Specimen No. 3, usually called doric, is really a combination of a thick-faced roman and antique. 1954Archit. Rev. CXVI. 119/1 Ionic..seems to have been invented by the type-founders in contrast to Doric, an early name for sans [serif].
Hence † ˈDorical a., Doric; ˈDoricism |-sɪz(ə)m|, a Doric form of expression.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 4, I heard a doricall songe. 1698Boyle Bentley's Phal. (ed. 2) 43 There is not the least shadow of Doricism. 1699Bentley Phal. 472 Salmasius is pleas'd to prefer that Reading, as a Doricism. |