单词 | paradoxographer |
释义 | paradoxographern. A writer in a literary genre, originating in early Alexandrian Greece, in which (natural or man-made) phenomena considered remarkable or fantastic are described. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material metaphrast1610 lasher1611 pastoralist1619 amorist1642 travel writer1711 party writer1715 Poor Richard1757 murdermonger1785 manners-painter1807 institutionalist1817 paroemiographer1823 nautical1831 nonsense-writera1835 recaster1841 serialist1845 snobographer1848 librettist1862 palindromist1872 fragmentist1874 text-man1900 scriptwriter1911 paradoxographer1917 absurdist1929 blogger1999 weblogger1999 1917 Classical Philol. 12 210 The story is traced through the other tragedians, the paradoxographers, and the mythographers down to the Byzantine period. 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 647/1 The paradoxographers often took some particular country as their field, Sicily, Scythia, etc. Natural phenomena, especially rivers, attracted them greatly. But zoology, history, and social customs also came within their purview. 1991 Oxf. Dict. Byzantium III. 1583/2 Several collections of ancient paradoxographers were made, such as Vat. Palat. gr. 398 (10th C.). This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1917 |
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