单词 | philopolemic |
释义 | philopolemicadj. rare. Devoted to or glorying in war or conflict; warlike; = philopolemical adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [adjective] > inclined to war bellicose1432 warful1530 contentious1535 bellicous1536 philopolemic1793 philopolemical1827 warlike1915 war-minded1936 1793 T. Taylor in tr. Plato Cratylus, Phaedo, Parmenides & Timaeus 66 (note) She [sc. Minerva] is very properly called philopolemic. 1794 T. Taylor tr. Pausanias Descr. Greece III. 242 She [sc. Minerva] is called..Philopolemic, as uniformly ruling over the opposing natures which the world contains. 1996 R. Hill Wood Beyond 38 What after all was this philopolemic building but a mausoleum in need of a body? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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