单词 | nuditarian |
释义 | Nuditariann.adj. A. n. An advocate or practitioner of nudism. Also: an artist who studies and depicts nude subjects. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun] > nudism or naturism > one who Adamite1833 Nuditarian1836 nudist1925 naturist1926 1836 J. Palmer Thoughts on Trial by Jury 40 in J. Palmer Tracts Law, Govt., & Other Polit. Subj. Suppose that in a hot summer the old sect of Adamites were to revive, (they might call themselves Nuditarians,) and..wish to go about without any clothes. 1867 Contemp. Rev. 6 387 The French schools..have their English followers in poetry already, and will soon have a strong body of Nuditarians in painting. 1986 L. Urdang et al. -Ologies & -Isms (ed. 3) xxiii. 76 Nuditarian, a person who advocates the study of the nude body or figure. 1994 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Sept. t83 Perhaps the only solution is to let it all hang out with The Nuditarian, ‘a libertarian nudist newsletter’. B. adj. Of an artist: that studies and depicts nude subjects. Also (more generally): that advocates or practises nudism. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [adjective] > advocating study of nude Nuditarian1867 1867 Contemp. Rev. 6 387 The high aim and motive..enable the Nuditarian school to quote Cellini's dictum with emphatic confidence. 1868 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt Handbk. Pict. Art 151 We do not desire to furnish students to a purely Nuditarian school who have no further object than flesh-painting. 1869 Sat. Rev. 29 May 720/1 He has examined with great minuteness the ‘nuditarian’ questions which are suggested by the drama and poetry of the age. The costume of Adam and Eve in the older miracle plays may, we think, be now regarded as definitely settled. 1998 P. Glassgold Angel Max iv. xv. 337 A strange cover..of an Adam and Eve, naked under a tree... Perhaps it was a nuditarian tract. DerivativesΚΠ 1869 M. Browne Chaucer's Eng. I. ix. 279 Nuditarianism is an open question in art, but grossness is not. 1896 A. S. Martin On Parody 64 The frank nuditarianism of the Elizabethans had given place to the studied indecencies and gross obscenities of the Rochesters, Behns, Wycherlys, and Swifts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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