单词 | poetico-philosophic |
释义 | > as lemmaspoetico-philosophic Forming adjectives with the sense ‘poetic and ——’, as poetico-commercial, poetico-metaphysical, poetico-philosophic, etc. ΚΠ 1711 Examiner 21 Sept. 1/1 We have Vocabularies Theologico-Political, and Historico-Poetico-Geographical. 1737 London Mag. May 248/1 A Poetico-historical Account, how jack went to an old Witch, to enquire how to make himself glorious. 1811 S. T. Coleridge Let. 6 Nov. (1959) III. 342 The Lecture room itself fitted up in a very grave authentic poetico-phi[losophic] Style. 1837 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 27 No. 2. 50 Much genuine philosophy, disguised though it often be in a poetico-metaphysical vesture of a most questionable kind. 1878 A. B. Grosart in H. More Compl. Poems Introd. 31/1 The peculiarity of More is in that poetico-philosophic mist, which..hangs in light and beautiful festoons over his thoughts. 1930 E. Blunden Leigh Hunt viii. 99 It [sc. Rimini] almost became fashionable..but..by no means challenged the poetico-commercial achievements of Rogers. 1952 Times 19 Dec. 10/1 The lieder composers can be ranged on a poetico-musical scale in which literary values..weigh little. 1991 R. W. B. Lewis Jameses iv. xviii. 566 The poetico-scientific image of the illusion of an object caused by mirrors playing prisms of light upon an empty space. < as lemmas |
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