| 单词 | zeuxis-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈZeuxis-like ˈZeuxis-like adj. [compare earlier Zeuxian adj.] resembling or characteristic of Zeuxis or his art (see main sense); cf. Zeuxian adj. ΚΠ 1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia i. 69 His starry eyes..rowled to and fro in that Garden of Beauties, as if he, Zeuxis like, pickt out here and there a heavenly feature, to compose a Posie and mixture of all excellencies and perfections. 1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 299 A vase containing white lilies..painted with such Zeuxis-like skill, that birds..have been seen attempting to..peck the flowers. 1942 Burlington Mag. Feb. 36/2 Nature was still his subject—but a nature no longer akin to the idea of a generalized form derived from a Zeuxis-like selection. 2005 M. M. Lovell Art in Season of Revol. iii. 58 They [sc. portraits] also were perceived to incorporate a Zeuxis-like deceptively magical replication of reality. < as lemmas |
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