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单词 anacreontic
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Anacreonticadj.n.

Brit. /əˌnakrɪˈɒntɪk/, U.S. /əˌnækriˈɑn(t)ɪk/
Forms: 1600s Anacreonticke, 1600s Anacreontique, 1600s–1700s Anacreontick, 1600s– Anacreontic. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Anacreonticus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin Anacreonticus (late 4th or early 5th cent.) < ancient Greek Ἀνακρεόντ- , Ἀνακρέων , the name of a Greek lyric poet of the 6th cent. b.c. + classical Latin -icus -ic suffix.Compare Middle French anacreontique, French anacréontique (1555), Spanish anacreóntico (1490), also German anakreontisch (1643 as †anacreontisch), adjectives. Compare also classical Latin Anacreontīus, Hellenistic Greek Ἀνακρεόντειος, adjectives.
A. adj.
1. Prosody. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the style of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon (b. c570 b.c.), whose lyric verse was noted for its celebration of love and wine; spec. designating a metre or verse consisting of an anaclastic ionic dimeter.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [adjective] > in style of specific writer
Skeltonical1589
Anacreontic1602
Anacreontical1698
Skeltonic1843
Skeltonian1867
1602 T. Campion Obseruations Art Eng. Poesie ix. sig. C5 Of the Anacreontick verse... It consists of two feete, the first may be either a Sponde or Trochy, the other must euer represent the nature of a Trochy.
1698 Earl of Orrery Dr. Bentley's Diss. Examin'd 256 I am far from thinking that the Fables in which they they [sic] are found were written first in Anacreontic, Trochaic, or Elegiac Measure.
1768 E. B. Greene in tr. Anacreon & Sappho Wks. 79 (note) The expression is Anacreontic, and therefore cannot be weighed in the ballance of exact propriety.
1834 N. A. Willard Treat. Music Hindoostan 34 How different would epic poetry sound if written in the measure peculiar to anacreontic odes!
1971 G. Gillespie German Baroque Poetry vii. 163 The typical anacreontic contrast of the sleeping girl and the contemplative male.
2002 R. J. Richards Romantic Conception Life x. 338 He wrote a number of anacreontic poems..that traced the changing face of his relationship with the girl.
2. Characterized by or involving levity, frivolity, or the celebration of love and drinking; convivial; amorous.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > of or relating to sexual love
amorousc1405
amatory1571
Venerean1575
amatorious1587
venerous1587
venereous1611
venerious1620
erotical1621
Anacreontic1640
erotic1668
gallant1673
un-Platonic1726
amatorian1779
pandemian1818
pandemica1822
genesial1848
aphrodisian1860
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [adjective]
merryeOE
jovial1607
Dionysiana1610
Anacreontic1640
jovialissime1652
festivous1654
convival1658
convivial1669
1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 298 Some Aphorismes there be..who lose much of their state, by their too weake discovery of an Anacreontick Spirit, and rendring themselves too light.
1763 F. Fawkes & W. Woty Poet. Cal. II. 96 Thither let me bend in haste, And embrace the bottle's waist, Charms Anacreontic prove, Quaffing to the God of love.
1886 F. C. Conybeare tr. W. Scherer Hist. German Lit. II. xi. 38 Klopstock was just fresh from the gallantry of Leipzig and the pleasures of student-life; he was no stranger to the Anacreontic mood.
1907 J. Blyth Canker vi. 83 ‘But what is it that has happened at the vicarage?’ asked Gladys, hoping to give the conversation a less Anacreontic turn.
2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xxi. 305 Everyone suspected she spent a few anacreontic afternoons a week with the shades pulled at the Velour Motel.
B. n.
A poem written in the metre or style of the ancient Greek poet Anacreon (b. c570 b.c.), esp. one on the theme of love or wine; (also) a line of such a poem. Frequently in plural.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > erotic poem
Anacreontic1603
erotic1858
1603 E. B. in H. Holland Pancharis sig. A7 (poem title) Anacreontickes.
1656 A. Cowley Misc. 31 (heading) in Poems Anacreontiques: or, some copies of verses translated paraphrastically out of Anacreon.
1740 F. Peck New Mem. Life & Wks. John Milton v. 30 The verses of each being all Anacreontics, or lines of seven or eight syllables.
1892 Speaker 16 Jan. 83/2 Let us set Shakespeare's anacreontic, ‘Come, thou monarch of the vine’, beside Fletcher's ‘God Lyæus, ever young’, and then see how Herrick writes an anacreontic.
1993 Classical Q. 43 349 A couple of later MSS preserve six anacreontics by John of Gaza.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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