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单词 sillograph
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sillographn.

Brit. /ˈsɪləɡrɑːf/, /ˈsɪləɡraf/, U.S. /ˈsɪləˌɡræf/
Forms: 1800s syllograph, 1800s– sillograph.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin sillographus; Greek σιλλογράϕος.
Etymology: < (i) post-classical Latin sillographus writer of satires or lampoons (4th cent.; also as syllographus (1585 or earlier)), and its etymon (ii) Hellenistic Greek σιλλογράϕος writer of satires or lampoons, especially applied to Timon of Phlius < σίλλος satirical poem, of unknown origin + ancient Greek -γράϕος -graph comb. form. Compare French sillographe , †syllographe (1781 or earlier), German Sillograph , †Syllograph (1770 or earlier). Compare earlier sillographer n., sillographist n.
Now somewhat rare.
A writer of satires or lampoons.Used chiefly as an epithet of Timon of Phlius (c320–230 b.c.).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > humorous writer > of lampoon or satire
satirica1387
satirist1566
Juvenal1592
pasquiller1598
sillographer1656
lampooner1693
sillographist1775
squibber1810
pasquillant1817
pasquinader1824
sillograph1824
lampoonist1880
1824 I. Disraeli Curiosities of Lit. I. 158 We should like to have appropriated some of these silli, or parodies of Timon the Sillograph.
1838 A. J. W. Morrison tr. H. Ritter Hist. Anc. Philos. II. vii. i. ii. 17 By others the syllograph Timon is made the source of the tradition that Socrates had been a scholar of Archelaus.
1882 C. Edwardes tr. G. Leopardi Ess. & Dialogues 24 The Academy of Sillographs [It. Sillografi], ardently desiring to advance the common welfare, [etc.].
1914 F. Mathews Taxation & Distribution of Wealth iv. iii. x. 401 Timon, the sillograph, styles him [sc. Xenophanes] the ‘wise reprover of the fallacies of Homer’.
1964 P. P. Hallie in S. G. Etheridge tr. Sextus Empiricus Scepticism, Man, & God Introd. 16 One of his [sc. Timon's] most influential books was a book of silloi, or lampoons (he was often called ‘the sillograph’).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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