bibliopoesy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Bibliopoly, bibliopoesy, in all their branches, are sick, sick, hastening to death and new genesis."
- "The book sciences (Bibliology) may be divided into: 1. Bibliography, or book description; 2. Bibliopoesy, or making of books; 3. Bibliopoly, or distribution of books; 4. Bibliochresis, or the theory of book use; 5. Bibliothecology, or the gathering of books into libraries and their public use. Library science, or Bibliothecology, is the climax of the book sciences. The book sciences, in turn, are among the anthropological sciences, and their place may be indicated as follows: I. Theology. II. Anthropology. 1. “Metaphysical sciences” (?) (1) Philosophical sciences. (2) Literary sciences. A. Language and literature. B. Bibliology. a. Bibliography b. Bibliopoesy. c. Bibliopoly. d. Bibliochresis. e. Bibliothecology."
- "The illustrations, in Mr. [Howard Chandler] Christy’s well-known style, are in colors, and add not a little to the merits of the volume as a fine example of bibliopoesy."
- "It is all extremely crude, yet it furnishes evidence that the faithful are endeavoring to prevent bibliopoesy from becoming an obsolete art in San Francisco."
- "This has led me to a new appreciation of bibliopoesy, the making of books, and bibliopegy, bookbinding as a fine art."
Etymology
From biblio- (“book”), from Ancient Greek βῐβλῐ́ον (bĭblĭ́on), and ποίησις (poíēsis, “creation, production”; compare the suffix -poiesis, -poesis).