Homericadj.

Brit.

/hə(ʊ)ˈmɛrɪk/, U.S.

/hoʊˈmɛrɪk/

Forms: 1500s–1600s Homerique, 1600s–1700s Homerick, 1600s– Homeric.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French homerique; Latin Homēricus.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French homerique (1548; French homérique ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin Homēricus of Homer or his poems < ancient Greek Ὁμηρικός < Ὅμηρος Homer, the traditional name of the author of the two Greek epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier Homerical adj.The name of Homer is attested in English from the Old English period onwards (e.g. Old English Homerus, Omerus, Middle English Homerus, Homere, Homer, Omerus, Omere, Omer).

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Homer, the epic poems attributed to him, or the period of Mycenaean Greece in which they are set; resembling these poems in style or content.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > Homer

Homerical?a1475

Homeric1594

Homerican1678

Homerian1717

1594 H. Broughton A Seder Olam sig. *I As, of my former Patrones in my Homerique dayes, when Homer was my profession, I spake in particularity after the Poets maner.

c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia (1953) i. 4 Your honorable graces (like an Homerick clowd) fall vpon them that they may be shadowed..from the wounding of the Common hand.

1695 P. Hume Ann. Paradise Lost iii. 114 A Repetition affected after the Homeric manner.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 121. ⁋8 His judgment was perhaps sometimes overborn by his avarice of the Homeric treasures; and, for fear of suffering a sparkling ornament to be lost, he has inserted it where it cannot shine with its original splendor.

a1771 R. Wood Ess. Homer (1775) 215 The whole Homeric history.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 159 The Homeric world..is at once poetical and real.

1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 277/1 The Hymn to Apollo..The Hymn to Hermes..The Hymn to Aphrodite and that to Demeter..are the principal of the Homeric hymns..These, with the ‘Battle of the Frogs and Mice’, make up the sum of the Homeric poems, genuine and spurious.

1858 W. E. Gladstone (title) Studies in Homer and the Homeric age.

1918 Classical Jrnl. 14 97 Much error still obtains concerning the character and extent of Homeric Greek nautical enterprise.

1964 B. M. W. Knox Heroic Temper (1983) ii. 59 Sophocles' Ajax is not really a Homeric hero any more than Shakespeare's Richard the Second is a fourteenth-century monarch.

2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 May 49/1 A calyx krater decorated with exquisite Homeric scenes by the Athenian painter Euphronios.

2. In extended use: of a type or nature befitting an epic poem; grand, large-scale.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > extensive or on a large scale

largea1400

ample1437

farc1475

diffused?1570

spacious1589

extensive1605

wholesale1642

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1841 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 177/2 On the solitary occasion when they are called upon to fight..Og, Gog, and Magog swell out into Homeric proportions.

1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 134/2 The reaping machines with their glare of paint and burnished steel, and their great overwhelming ‘reels’, have a kind of Homeric character.

1913 Sewanee Rev. 21 488 Miss Austen left few memorable scenes and no Homeric struggles.

1955 Star Weekly (Toronto) 16 July ii. 12/2 It hadn't exactly been a brawl to rank with the most homeric barroom brannigans in which Simon had ever participated.

1963 C. L. R. James Beyond Boundary (2000) v. 69 When the day was finally over with the pair still undefeated, I met Hutcheon. He..shook his finger oratorically and said one word: ‘Homeric!’

2008 N. Wimmer tr. R. Bolaño 2666 iv. 556 In 1934, after a Homeric bender, the bullfighter..and his comrades..took rooms at a tavern.

Compounds

Homeric catalogue n. (a) (also more fully Homeric catalogue of ships) a long and detailed listing of the contingents of the Achaean forces which sailed to Troy, given in the second book of Homer's Iliad; (b) (by extension) any similarly long or encyclopedic list.

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1789 W. M. Heald Brunoniad (title page) A critical and truly Homerican Catalogue of our present Luminaries of Medicine.]

1804 J. Aikin et al. Gen. Biogr. V. 239/2 Controversies were decided respecting boundaries and prerogatives by lines from the Homeric catalogue of ships.

1837 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 196/1 The ‘Record’..presents us with quite a Homeric catalogue of speakers.

1894 Contemp. Rev. 65 858 The Caucasus itself..contains within its countless recesses a Homeric catalogue of nations whose names it is difficult to pronounce.

1897 H. F. Tozer Hist. Anc. Geogr. ii. 40 The cypress..gave its name to two places that occur in the Homeric catalogue, Cyparissus and Cyparisseis.

1922 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Nov. 882/2 In the well-known Homeric catalogue of ships he [sc. Aesculapius] is spoken of as the father of the completely human physicians, Podaleirius and Machaon.

1992 New Yorker 27 Apr. 29/2 With that piece of personal history to get us going, the entire car ride turned into a Homeric catalogue of gynecological ills.

Homeric epithet n. an epithet or description used by Homer, or resembling one used by him, esp. one which is much repeated or has become a usual or stock description.See, for example, rosy-fingered adj., wine-dark adj. at wine n.¹ Compounds 2.

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1789 R. P. Jodrell Illustr. Euripides (new ed.) 103 He might..have remarked, that Euripides had borrowed the Homerick epithet, κυάνεος, and applied to the eyebrows of Pluto, what the old Bard had assigned to those of Jupiter.

1793 G. Steevens Note on Pericles i. iv, in Plays of Shakspeare XIII. 430 Hollow, applied to ships, is a Homeric epithet.

1858 Harvard Mag. Dec. 401 That Homeric epithet of our race, ‘word-dividing men’, is by no means inappropriate.

1869 Fortn. Rev. 1 Aug. 185 He was always in difficulty as to some person's name or other, and he had regular descriptions which recurred, like Homeric epithets.

1913 J. Palmer Comedy of Manners vi. 218 The Homeric epithet for Vanbrugh seems as clearly to have fitted him as the Homeric epithets for his predecessors. It was..Brother Van.

1926 Eng. Jrnl. 15 148 The Homeric epithets, those exquisite phrases that crystallise the epic spirit: ‘Great Hector of the waving plume’, ‘Diomedes good at the war-cry’, ‘the rosy-fingered dawn’, [etc.].

1993 New Yorker 20 Sept. 51/1 His success had dissolved the Homeric epithet: he was no longer the black director or the black writer George Wolfe but simply the director and writer George Wolfe.

Homeric laugh n. a loud unrestrained laugh; cf. Homeric laughter n.

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1838 London & Westm. Rev. Dec. 34/1 Homeric Wolf, with his biting wit, with his grim earnestness and inextinguishable Homeric laugh.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Mar. 7/2 A great Homeric laugh showed that the joke had gone home.

1912 C. T. Brady Commodore Paul Jones x. 195 I imagine a roar of wild exultation quivering from truck to keelson, a gigantic Homeric laugh.

1957 Times 15 Mar. 13/2 He was still the same untidy man..whose normal gravity was varied from time to time by a Homeric laugh.

2001 L. Asher tr. ‘M. Winckler’ Case Dr. Sachs 211 Ray started laughing with that Homeric laugh of his.

Homeric laughter n. [compare French rire homérique (1825), German homerisches Gelächter (1827 or earlier)] loud unrestrained laughter resembling the laughter of the gods as described by Homer ( Iliad i. 599, Odyss. xx. 346).

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1832 L. Phalary Hist. Psyché from Raphael's Drawings 34-35 Vulcan always ready with pun, and jest, excited more than once Homeric laughter.

1886 R. F. Gould Hist. Freemasonry V. xxv. 172 A proceeding which brought down upon its head the Homeric laughter of its rivals, and indeed of all of Paris.

1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 236/1 With Homeric laughter and epic outburst of passion, she plays midwife to creation.

1998 T. Cohen Ideol. & Inscription v. 197 The theater breaks out more than ever in..convulsive, even Homeric laughter.

Homeric question n. (with the) the question of the authorship, composition, and date of poems attributed to Homer.

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1830 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets 37 I might, perhaps, have declined..any notice of what, for the sake of brevity, may be termed the Homeric Question.

1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer ii. 17 The controversies summed up under the name of the ‘Homeric Question’ cannot be passed by even in an elementary work.

1903 New Internat. Encycl. IX. 513/1 It is in the modern world that the famous Homeric Question begins..with F. A. Wolf's Latin Prolegomena ad Homerum, published in 1795.

1980 M. S. Jensen (title) The Homeric question and the oral-formulaic theory.

2008 J. Gottschall Rape of Troy vi. 101 The Homeric epics..were composed by a man (or men, depending on how you answer the Homeric question), mainly about men, and largely for men.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	homeric
释义	Homericadj. Brit. /hə(ʊ)ˈmɛrɪk/, U.S. /hoʊˈmɛrɪk/ Forms: 1500s–1600s Homerique, 1600s–1700s Homerick, 1600s– Homeric. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French homerique; Latin Homēricus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French homerique (1548; French homérique ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin Homēricus of Homer or his poems < ancient Greek Ὁμηρικός < Ὅμηρος Homer, the traditional name of the author of the two Greek epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier Homerical adj.The name of Homer is attested in English from the Old English period onwards (e.g. Old English Homerus, Omerus, Middle English Homerus, Homere, Homer, Omerus, Omere, Omer). 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Homer, the epic poems attributed to him, or the period of Mycenaean Greece in which they are set; resembling these poems in style or content. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > Homer Homerical?a1475 Homeric1594 Homerican1678 Homerian1717 1594 H. Broughton A Seder Olam sig. I As, of my former Patrones in my Homerique dayes, when Homer was my profession, I spake in particularity after the Poets maner. c1612 W. Strachey Hist. Trav. Virginia* (1953) i. 4 Your honorable graces (like an Homerick clowd) fall vpon them that they may be shadowed..from the wounding of the Common hand. 1695 P. Hume Ann. Paradise Lost iii. 114 A Repetition affected after the Homeric manner. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 121. ⁋8 His judgment was perhaps sometimes overborn by his avarice of the Homeric treasures; and, for fear of suffering a sparkling ornament to be lost, he has inserted it where it cannot shine with its original splendor. a1771 R. Wood Ess. Homer (1775) 215 The whole Homeric history. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 159 The Homeric world..is at once poetical and real. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 277/1 The Hymn to Apollo..The Hymn to Hermes..The Hymn to Aphrodite and that to Demeter..are the principal of the Homeric hymns..These, with the ‘Battle of the Frogs and Mice’, make up the sum of the Homeric poems, genuine and spurious. 1858 W. E. Gladstone (title) Studies in Homer and the Homeric age. 1918 Classical Jrnl. 14 97 Much error still obtains concerning the character and extent of Homeric Greek nautical enterprise. 1964 B. M. W. Knox Heroic Temper (1983) ii. 59 Sophocles' Ajax is not really a Homeric hero any more than Shakespeare's Richard the Second is a fourteenth-century monarch. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 May 49/1 A calyx krater decorated with exquisite Homeric scenes by the Athenian painter Euphronios. 2. In extended use: of a type or nature befitting an epic poem; grand, large-scale. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > extensive or on a large scale largea1400 ample1437 farc1475 diffused?1570 spacious1589 extensive1605 wholesale1642 diffuse1644 extense1644 voluminousa1652 amplivagant1656 extentive1658 numerousa1661 extended1700 amplivagous1731 far-reaching1824 Homeric1841 large-scale1856 wholescale1910 wide-scale1925 big-scale1930 macroscopic1931 broadscale1958 1841 Fraser's Mag. Feb. 177/2 On the solitary occasion when they are called upon to fight..Og, Gog, and Magog swell out into Homeric proportions. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 134/2 The reaping machines with their glare of paint and burnished steel, and their great overwhelming ‘reels’, have a kind of Homeric character. 1913 Sewanee Rev. 21 488 Miss Austen left few memorable scenes and no Homeric struggles. 1955 Star Weekly (Toronto) 16 July ii. 12/2 It hadn't exactly been a brawl to rank with the most homeric barroom brannigans in which Simon had ever participated. 1963 C. L. R. James Beyond Boundary (2000) v. 69 When the day was finally over with the pair still undefeated, I met Hutcheon. He..shook his finger oratorically and said one word: ‘Homeric!’ 2008 N. Wimmer tr. R. Bolaño 2666 iv. 556 In 1934, after a Homeric bender, the bullfighter..and his comrades..took rooms at a tavern. Compounds Homeric catalogue n. (a) (also more fully Homeric catalogue of ships) a long and detailed listing of the contingents of the Achaean forces which sailed to Troy, given in the second book of Homer's Iliad; (b) (by extension) any similarly long or encyclopedic list. ΚΠ 1789 W. M. Heald Brunoniad (title page) A critical and truly Homerican Catalogue of our present Luminaries of Medicine.] 1804 J. Aikin et al. Gen. Biogr. V. 239/2 Controversies were decided respecting boundaries and prerogatives by lines from the Homeric catalogue of ships. 1837 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 196/1 The ‘Record’..presents us with quite a Homeric catalogue of speakers. 1894 Contemp. Rev. 65 858 The Caucasus itself..contains within its countless recesses a Homeric catalogue of nations whose names it is difficult to pronounce. 1897 H. F. Tozer Hist. Anc. Geogr. ii. 40 The cypress..gave its name to two places that occur in the Homeric catalogue, Cyparissus and Cyparisseis. 1922 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Nov. 882/2 In the well-known Homeric catalogue of ships he [sc. Aesculapius] is spoken of as the father of the completely human physicians, Podaleirius and Machaon. 1992 New Yorker 27 Apr. 29/2 With that piece of personal history to get us going, the entire car ride turned into a Homeric catalogue of gynecological ills. Homeric epithet n. an epithet or description used by Homer, or resembling one used by him, esp. one which is much repeated or has become a usual or stock description.See, for example, rosy-fingered adj., wine-dark adj. at wine n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1789 R. P. Jodrell Illustr. Euripides (new ed.) 103 He might..have remarked, that Euripides had borrowed the Homerick epithet, κυάνεος, and applied to the eyebrows of Pluto, what the old Bard had assigned to those of Jupiter. 1793 G. Steevens Note on Pericles i. iv, in Plays of Shakspeare XIII. 430 Hollow, applied to ships, is a Homeric epithet. 1858 Harvard Mag. Dec. 401 That Homeric epithet of our race, ‘word-dividing men’, is by no means inappropriate. 1869 Fortn. Rev. 1 Aug. 185 He was always in difficulty as to some person's name or other, and he had regular descriptions which recurred, like Homeric epithets. 1913 J. Palmer Comedy of Manners vi. 218 The Homeric epithet for Vanbrugh seems as clearly to have fitted him as the Homeric epithets for his predecessors. It was..Brother Van. 1926 Eng. Jrnl. 15 148 The Homeric epithets, those exquisite phrases that crystallise the epic spirit: ‘Great Hector of the waving plume’, ‘Diomedes good at the war-cry’, ‘the rosy-fingered dawn’, [etc.]. 1993 New Yorker 20 Sept. 51/1 His success had dissolved the Homeric epithet: he was no longer the black director or the black writer George Wolfe but simply the director and writer George Wolfe. Homeric laugh n. a loud unrestrained laugh; cf. Homeric laughter n. ΚΠ 1838 London & Westm. Rev. Dec. 34/1 Homeric Wolf, with his biting wit, with his grim earnestness and inextinguishable Homeric laugh. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Mar. 7/2 A great Homeric laugh showed that the joke had gone home. 1912 C. T. Brady Commodore Paul Jones x. 195 I imagine a roar of wild exultation quivering from truck to keelson, a gigantic Homeric laugh. 1957 Times 15 Mar. 13/2 He was still the same untidy man..whose normal gravity was varied from time to time by a Homeric laugh. 2001 L. Asher tr. ‘M. Winckler’ Case Dr. Sachs 211 Ray started laughing with that Homeric laugh of his. Homeric laughter n. [compare French rire homérique (1825), German homerisches Gelächter (1827 or earlier)] loud unrestrained laughter resembling the laughter of the gods as described by Homer ( Iliad i. 599, Odyss. xx. 346). ΚΠ 1832 L. Phalary Hist. Psyché from Raphael's Drawings 34-35 Vulcan always ready with pun, and jest, excited more than once Homeric laughter. 1886 R. F. Gould Hist. Freemasonry V. xxv. 172 A proceeding which brought down upon its head the Homeric laughter of its rivals, and indeed of all of Paris. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 236/1 With Homeric laughter and epic outburst of passion, she plays midwife to creation. 1998 T. Cohen Ideol. & Inscription v. 197 The theater breaks out more than ever in..convulsive, even Homeric laughter. Homeric question n. (with the) the question of the authorship, composition, and date of poems attributed to Homer. ΚΠ 1830 H. N. Coleridge Introd. Greek Poets 37 I might, perhaps, have declined..any notice of what, for the sake of brevity, may be termed the Homeric Question. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer ii. 17 The controversies summed up under the name of the ‘Homeric Question’ cannot be passed by even in an elementary work. 1903 New Internat. Encycl. IX. 513/1 It is in the modern world that the famous Homeric Question begins..with F. A. Wolf's Latin Prolegomena ad Homerum, published in 1795. 1980 M. S. Jensen (title) The Homeric question and the oral-formulaic theory. 2008 J. Gottschall Rape of Troy vi. 101 The Homeric epics..were composed by a man (or men, depending on how you answer the Homeric question), mainly about men, and largely for men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1594
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