单词 | priamel |
释义 | priameln. Originally: a type of short poem cultivated in Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries, culminating in a witty or ingenious turn of thought. Later applied to similar literary forms; spec. (in ancient Greek poetry) a device in which a number of items or options, culminating in a preferred one, are listed for comparison. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > short verse or poem > [noun] > epigram epigrama1552 priamel1889 1889 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 10 360 Euling furnishes the text of a MS of the fifteenth century..containing epigrams, and emends his own edition of ‘Priameln’. 1938 PMLA 53 65 A Priamel is generally moralizing, didactic, humorous, and satirical... Rosenplüt was the best Priamel-poet. 1978 M. L. West Hesiod's Wks. & Days 269 The recommendation of holm-oak for the plough-tree is reinforced by a priamel. 1988 Literary Rev. Aug. 45/1 Race calls Keats' ‘on first looking into Chapman's Homer’ a priamel. 2001 Phoenix 55 293 He includes Thais in a kind of priamel of previous record-holders. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1889 |
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