| 单词 | genus irritabile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgenus irritabile (vatum) 5. genus irritabile (vatum) [after Horace, Ep. ii. ii. 102] , the irritable or over-sensitive race or class (of poets). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] > collectively genus irritabile (vatum)1720 poethood1849 1720 J. Swift Let. to Young Poet (1721) 23 These of your Profession have been call'd Genus irritabile vatum. 1818 J. Keats Lett. (1958) I. 386 That matter..which is accounted so acceptable in the ‘genus irritabile’. 1838 C. Dickens Lett. (1965) I. 398 Your great patience which is so exemplary and peculiar that I fear you will never make an author, as you can never be one of the genus irritabile. 1940 ‘N. Blake’ Malice in Wonderland vii. 86 The Mad Hatter realized he was of the genus irritabile of singers, so he doped the piano for him, knowing it would make him fly off the handle. < as lemmas |
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