单词 | orientalizing |
释义 | orientalizingn. The process of making something oriental in style or character. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > eastern people > making eastern orientalizing1879 orientalization1886 orientation1914 1879 C. R. Conder Tent Work Palestine II. 89 A very marked improvement..in what might be called the orientalising of the Bible. 1916 Amer. Hist. Rev. 21 705 This orientalizing of Rome's populace has a more important bearing than is usually accorded it. 1999 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide I. i. 133/1 This orientalizing reached its high—or low—point during the brief mid-1960s craze for indoyíftika, Indian film music lifted straight from Bollywood and reset to Greek lyrics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). orientalizingadj. That orientalizes something; esp. designating or relating to a style of Greek art, of the period c750–650 b.c., in which influences from the art of the Near East are discernible. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [adjective] > eastern people orientalizing1818 orientalized1846 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > ancient, primitive, or pre-Renaissance > [adjective] > ancient Greek protocorinthian1884 proto-Greek1887 orientalizing1902 Protogeometric1914 1818 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 884 A common and favorite metaphor of the orientalizing Platonists or rather Plotinists. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxvii. 534 The orientalising tendency—then beginning to spread over the Grecian and Roman world. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 574/2 From Ionia the style of vase-painting which,..may best be termed the ‘orientalizing’, spread to Greece proper. 1939 J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete vi. 336 In the Orientalizing Period a number of important works of art in bronze was produced in Crete. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 May 15/2 The Freer also owns the most important of Whistler's Orientalizing canvases. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1879adj.1818 |
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