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neoteric, a. and n.|niːəʊˈtɛrɪk|
Also 7 neoterique, 6–8 neoterick (7 -e).
[a. late L. neōtericus adj. and n., ad. Gr. νεωτερικός, f. νεώτερος, compar. of νέος new.]
A. adj. Recent, new, modern:
a. of things, esp. beliefs, practices, or the like.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 18 My fancie as touching those Neoterick tongues thou professest. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 218 Declining from that Neoterick faith..as he waxed in experience of the world. 1676Phil. Trans. II. Ded., The same hand puts a stop to the Neoteric Notions of Chymists. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 340 The Title of this Neoterick Tract against Judiciary Astrology. 1816W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXXI. 118 The neoteric jargon of scholastic terms which he introduced. 1838Pusey Let. in Liddon Life (1893) II. xxi. 65, I said it must be said somehow ‘Catholic and primitive truth’ as opposed to ‘Neoteric’. 1879Meredith Egoist xviii, The neoteric fashion of spending a honeymoon on the railway.
b. of persons, esp. of authors.
1611Coryat Crudities Ep. Rdr., Celebrated partly by the ancient Roman historiographers and partly by other neotericke travellers. 1637Bastwick Litany ii. 21 Both ancient and neoterick Expositors. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 4 That very Fate that is maintained by some Neoterick Christians. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. 2 Most of the Neoterick Popish Writers. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 146 This species, the nyctalopia of neoteric authors,..is said to be endemic in Poland. a1876M. Collins Th. in Garden (1880) II. 283 Such are the wise sayings of our neoteric sages.
B. n.
1. A modern; esp. a modern writer or author. (Very common in 17th c.)
1598Meres Palladis Tamia 280 As these Neoterickes..haue obtained renown. 1609E. Hoby Let. to T. H[iggons] 49 Is it possible, that that holy man should..come to bee taxed by an obscure Neoterique of malignitie? 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. i. 122 All the great Neotericks have espoused the Copernican [system]. 1728Pope Dunc., M. Scriblerus Wks. (Globe) 363 Such severe indispensable rules as are laid on all Neoterics, a strict imitation of the Ancients. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Productions Mod. Art, A landscape of a justly admired neoteric.
2. pl. The study of modern things.
1857A. Leighton Wilson's Tales Borders I. 52 She was no antiquary.., being rather given to neoterics. |