单词 | georgic |
释义 | georgicn.adj. A. n. 1. A poem concerning agriculture and other rural occupations; spec. (usually with capital initial) each of the four books of Virgil's Georgics (see georgics n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > pastoral poem > [noun] > titles of pastoral poems shepherd's calendar1506 georgic1684 1684 Misc. Poems 310 (heading) The Praises of Italy out of Virgil's Second Georgic. a1719 J. Addison On Virgil's Georgics in Wks. (1721) I. 250 A Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry..set off with all the Beauties and Embellishments of Poetry. 1753 T. Gray Let. 18 Oct. in Corr. (1971) I. 388 Today it is in the North, clear sunshine, but cold & a little wintry: & so ends my Georgick in prose. 1818 Monthly Mag. & Brit. Reg. 1 May 313/2 Mr. Belsham was not criticising an epic, but a georgic. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 110 His Supreme Being—a mere didactic phrase, the deity of a poet's georgic. 1922 S. Leslie Oppidan xii. 141 They were each to write out a Georgic. 1992 D. Herrmann A. M. Lindbergh xv. 191 The Land, a sort of English georgic, was Vita's most famous work. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] tiliec1000 acremanOE husbanda1300 husbandmanc1384 farmer1528 breeder1547 farmeress1595 colona1640 agricole1656 georgic1703 agricultor1766 Farmer Giles1770 agriculturer1776 agriculturalist1788 culturist1814 fazendeiro1825 bartoner1832 agriculturist1849 culturalist1866 farmerette1901 dry-land farmer1914 drylander1921 Eurofarmer1957 multiplier1969 pick-your-owner1969 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser Pref. 2 Adam in the Garden of Eden..was..to perform the Office of a Georgic (or Husband-man). B. adj. Of or relating to agriculture, rustic; esp. (of poetry, music, pictures, etc.) concerning agriculture and other rural occupations (cf. sense A. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] georgical1588 geoponical1646 agricultural1661 geoponic1663 georgic1690 agricolous1779 agric1812 ag1844 terracultural- 1690 T. D'Urfey Collin's Walk i. 18 Thus in the Ancient Georgick Lore, Was Collin famous, and much more Than did with his course Garb agree, In Mystical Mythology. 1720 J. Gay Rural Sports i, in Poems I. 6 Here I peruse the Mantuan's Georgic strains, And learn the labours of Italian swains. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness Ded. These environs find the good effect of your taste and judgment in the useful parts of Georgic studies. 1800 Crit. Rev. June 165 The beauty of its [sc. a hop-garden's] summer aspect, the high finish of its cultivation, and its national importance, all..constitute a fit subject for the georgic poet. 1875 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie xviii. 100 The idea was abroad in the mind bucolic and georgic. 1910 New Music Rev. June 342/2 In the pianoforte suite ‘Le chant de la Terre’, a georgic poem, the composer has chosen for his theme the poetry of rural life. 1974 W. K. Wimsatt Literary Crit.: Idea & Act ii. xi. 465 The ancient ideal of georgic wisdom. 1990 Extrapolation Spring 90 A sort of georgic hard work in the vineyards of a growing pulp field. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1684 |
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