α. 1600s anthologicon.
β. 1600s anthologick, 1900s– anthologic.
单词 | anthologic |
释义 | anthologicn.adj.α. 1600s anthologicon. β. 1600s anthologick, 1900s– anthologic. A book that deals with flowers or herbs; = anthology n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] > book or treatise on plants > on specific types of plants anthologic1601 anthology1658 Pomona1664 sylva1664 meconology1721 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. iii. 82 As for our countreymen, some haue entituled their bookes Anthologicon [L. libros anthologicon; Fr. traitez des fleurs; marg. note Of flower gathering]: but none of them all, so farre as ever I could find, wrote any Treatise concerning flowers. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Anthologicks, books that intreat of flowers or herbs. B. adj. ΚΠ 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. at Anthologick Anthologie, treatise of flowers, choice Collections. Anthologick, belonging thereto. 1909 E. L. Greene Landmarks of Bot. Hist. v. 179 Forgetting, then, all anthologic differences between nettle and dead nettle, note how remarkably they are in agreement. 2. Of, relating to, or suitable for an anthology or anthologies (see anthology n. 2).In early use frequently with reference to Greek anthologies of epigrams and other short poems; see anthology n. 2a(a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [adjective] > anthology anthological1607 polyanthean1621 anthologic?1780 ?1780 T. Burgess Ess. Study Antiq. 9 [Descriptions of the works of classical artists have survived in] several of the Anthologic Poets; Pausanias; Strabo; Pilostratus; Lucian, &c. 1803 C. Lamb Let. to S. T. Coleridge 27 May in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) 114 Another vol. will clear off all your anthologic, morning-post-ian and epistolary miscellanies—but pray dont put..[Christobel] therein. 1858 Irish Q. Rev. Oct. 792 An anthologic epigram assumes that the poet [sc. Sophocles] was choked by the kernel of an unripe grape. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 869/1 (advt.) One of the most original and entertaining anthologies of this anthologic era. 1978 World Lit. Today 52 264 An implied by unified text that necessarily emerges from the anthologic juxtaposition of diverse autonomous texts. 2000 Stud. Philol. 97 150 The anthologic genre had been identified long before the sixteenth century as an appropriate vehicle for cultural and political commentary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1601 |
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