单词 | bathotic |
释义 | bathoticadj. = bathetic adj. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > ludicrous descent to the commonplace bathetica1834 bathotic1863 1863 Temple Bar VII. 193 The appearance of this bathotic ebullition. 1874 E. S. Nadal in Scribner's Monthly 7 486/1 The cadencies of this bathotic expression rolled among the arches of the cathedral. 1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 35 In England the bathotic has always had the majority in its grip. 1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 36 On that stop—the bathotic stop—the English journalist makes a point of playing. 1952 R. Campbell Lorca 49 The gipsy..comes right down with a bathotic lapse at the end. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1863 |
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