单词 | genethliacon |
释义 | genethliaconn. A birthday ode. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > ode > other types of ode genethliacon1566 palinody1583 New Year ode1588 triumphal1589 palinode1600 monody1623 Pindaric1667 genethliac1687 Olympionica1749 1566 T. Becon New Postil sig. F iiv They singe such a Genethliacon and byrth verse as was neuer heard of before in the worlde. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xxiii. 37 Others for magnificence at the natiuities of Princes children, or by custome vsed yearely vpon the same dayes, are called songs natall or Genethliaca. 1647 in R. Fanshawe tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido sig. Ff2 Buchanan in his Genethliacon to King James, out of which this is taken. 1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal i. ii. 5 That [Quire] which before his birth sang his Genethliacon. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Epainetick Poem comprehends the Hymn, the Epithalamium, the Genethliacon, or what else tends to the praise or congratulation of the Divine persons and persons eminent upon earth. 1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. (1812) IX. 74 This year's Constitution, which was formed and its genethliacon sung by the noble Author, while it was yet in embryo. 1823 P. F. Tytler Acct. Life & Writings T. Craig 137 Craig..hailed the birth of the royal infant..in his Genethliacon. 1888 Edinb. Rev. 167 478 The eclogue..is a genethliacon, or birthday ode. 1911 W. W. Fowler Relig. Exper. Rom. People xvii. 402 I have seen a learned work..in which is maintained that Virgil's fourth Eclogue is simply a genethliacon of Augustus. 1995 R. S. Edgecombe Reader's Guide Poetry Richard Wilbur 121 The birthday poem..is a miniature genethliacon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1566 |
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