adoxograph
/eɪˈdɑksɑˌɡɹæf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A work of adoxography.
Example Sentences
- "Polycrates, disciple of Gorgias, wrote in praise of mice, pots, pebbles. Others of bees, salt, those are the Adoxographs. Dio Chrysostomos has a praise of mosquitoes, parrots, and hair. Lucian, praise of the fly."
- "[A]udiences laugh heartily because the adoxographs, if done with mock seriousness, are a broad form of irony, related to sarcasm. […] In the N-Town Passion Play I, Lucifer is an implied presenter of the play and an implied controller of its events. He addresses the audience directly and confidentially in an extraordinary 124-line adoxograph which is part social satire and part seriocomic plea for our commitment to his suzerainty […] The diabolical adoxographs that have been identified here are collectively an analogue of such cosmic symmetries as those in Dante [Alighieri] […]"
Etymology
From New Latin adoxus (“absurd, paradoxical”) from Ancient Greek ἄδοξος (ádoxos, “obscure, ignoble”) (from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δόξα (dóxa, “expectation”)) + -graph.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /eɪˈdɑksɑˌɡɹæf/
- British English: /eɪˈdɒksɒˌɡɹɑːf/