Meaning of adoxographical | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to adoxography; adoxographic.

not-comparable, rhetoric

Examples

“The manner is that of adoxographical, almost paradoxical (demens iudicio volgi), encomium, in that so far from apologizing for humble birth he finds in this the very foundation of his happiness and contentment.”

“"ADOXOGRAPHY," […] The former word, with the still uglier "adoxographical," would seem to be of transatlantic origin. Some years ago I drew attention (9 S. xi. 425) to the use of the adjective in an American periodical (The American Journal of Philology, xxiii. 393).”

“The Praise [The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus] has been called learned parody, mock eulogy, an adoxographical essay; and rightly so, for it is all that. But it is primarily satire […]”

“Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of Fronto.”

“[A]s is well known, [Alexander] Pope helped to improve [William] Wycherley's ‘adoxographical’ poem A Panegyric of Dulness.”

“Like Coquelin's ‘Norman’, Phaedrus' bumpkin is a typically ‘adoxographical’ hero (the inglorious written up): one facing a horde. The wisdom of the soil trounces city wit in stories meant for townspeople.”

“What Una recognizes as Despayre's "vaine words," and what [Edmund] Spenser himself identifies as "subtile sleight" (53:2 and 54:3) is the sophistical medium that facilitates adoxographical argumentation in canto ix of the Faerie Queene, as does the "false and hollow" speech of Belial whose tongue "droppt [not honey but sweet] Manna" (2.113–4).”

“In his adoxographical Summa Theologica he [Thomas Aquinas] wrote that "inordinate love of self is the cause of every sin."”

“It must be noted that adoxographical vituperations are extremely uncommon in antiquity and that this exercise of Marcus Aurelius, praised by [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto for its elegant vocabulary but also criticized as an 'attack too mischievous' […]”

“On Favorinus as a champion of adoxographical discourse see Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae XVII, 12, 1–2.”

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