Sotadicn.adj.

/səʊˈtadɪk/

Forms: Also 1700s Sotadick.

Etymology: < Latin Sōtadicus, < Sōtadēs, Greek Σωτάδης: see definition.

A. n.

1. A satire after the manner of Sotades, an ancient Greek poet noted for the coarseness and scurrility of his writings.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > licentious or pornographic poem

ithyphallic1614

Fescennine1624

Sotadic1645

priapics1865

pornogram1936

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 27 Perhaps, as the provocation may bee, I may bee driv'n to curle up this gliding prose into a rough Sotadic.

1836 Fraser's Mag. 13 742 Neither would the keenest bit of satire be a legitimate ‘sotadic’, without that dash of turbulence in it, and sweeping denunciation.

2. Prosody. A catalectic tetrameter composed of Ionics a majore.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > tetrameter > types of

Sotadic1830

galliambica1846

1830 J. Seager tr. J. G. J. Hermann Elem. Doctr. Metres 97 [Plautus] has Sotadics in Aul. ii, 1, 30. sq. iii, 2. Amph. i, 1, 14. sq.

B. adj.

1. Characterized by a coarseness or scurrility like that of Sotades.

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the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > strong, sulphurous (of language) > referring to specific writer

Sotadic1716

Rabelaica1768

Rabelaisian1857

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [adjective] > licentious or pornographic

Fescennine verses1601

Sotadic1716

1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. To Rdr. p. xlv Which favour was..deservedly refus'd to most Necromantick Sotadick and Arian Libels, by the common consent of all Christians.

2. Capable of being read in reverse order; palindromic.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > relating to or consisting of lines > palindromic

Sotadical1610

retrograde1653

recurrent1706

reciprocal1728

Sotadean1774

Sotadic?a1814

?a1814 T. Brown in D. Welsh Acct. Life T. Brown (1825) vii. 350 The second syllable is..the sound reversed, like the reading of a Sotadic line.

1862 H. B. Wheatley Anagrams 9 Palindromic verses are also sometimes called Sotadic verses.

3. Prosody. (See quot. 1830 and A. 2.)

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > composed in feet > two long syllables then two short

Ionic1712

Sotadean1830

Sotadic1830

1830 J. Seager tr. J. G. J. Hermann Elem. Doctr. Metres 96 The most noted of Ionic verses à majori is the Sotadic, constructed for recitation only.

Derivatives

Soˈtadical adj. rare.

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