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orchestic, a. and n.|ɔːˈkɛstɪk|
[ad. Gr. ὀρχηστικ-ός, f. ὀρχηστ-ής dancer: see -ic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to dancing.
1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §44 That feeling for what is significant and beautiful in the human form..found its gratification in the food afforded to it by the orchestic arts. 1869W. Smith Dict. Gr. & Rom. Antiq. (ed. 2) 1061 The athletic and orchestic arts attained about Ol. 50 a high degree of perfection.
B. n. (more freq. in pl. orchestics.) The art of dancing.
1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §20 This series of arts reaches its highest point in mimic orchestics. Ibid. §77 Gymnastics and orchestics, arts which were exercised with the greatest zeal. 1864J. Hadley Ess. (1873) 81 The silent art of orchestic has its arses and theses, its trochees and iambi,..not less truly than music and poetry. |