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troglodytic, a.|trɒg-, trəʊgləʊˈdɪtɪk|
Also 6 -it-.
[ad. L. trōglodytic-us, a. Gr. τρωγλοδυτικός, f. τρωγλοδύτης: see prec. and -ic.]
1. Inhabited or frequented by troglodytes; pertaining to or characteristic of a troglodyte.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xi. 122 b, The part of this Arabia bordering vpon Ethyopia by the auncients called Trogloditick. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 36 Upon the æthiopick or Trogloditick shoar. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 313 In the deep rocky valley of Ispica, are cliffs cut out into numerous habitations... This curious Troglodytic city, still occupied by a few peasants. 1874Withrow Catacombs of Rome (1877) 152 So habituated did he become to this troglodytic existence.
2. Having the habits of a troglodyte; cave-dwelling.
1676Evelyn in Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Surrey (1719) I. Pref. 8 In the sandy Banks about Albury, do breed the Troglodytic Martines, who make their Boroughs in the Earth. 1833–4J. Phillips Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 698/2 Many parts of the Mediterranean shores were anciently possessed by Troglodytic nations. 1894Windle Tyson's Philol. Ess. Pygmies Introd. i. 21 These tribes..are said to be pigmy in stature, troglodytic, and still in the Stone Age.
3. Resembling a troglodyte; of a degraded type like the cave-dwellers; also fig. not interested in or conversant with affairs.
1871J. A. Symonds in Life (1895) II. 77 Uttering..these little bat squeaks of a Troglodytic creature. 1886Stevenson Dr. Jekyll ii. (ed. 2) 25 God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic..? 1910Blackw. Mag. Feb. 169/2 A respectable troglodytic peer.
So trogloˈdytical a.
1841T. A. Trollope Western France I. ix. 164 The whole [calcareous bank]..is hollowed out into a vast number of..troglodytical habitations. |