单词 | zoographer |
释义 | zoographern. 1. A person who produces descriptions of animals and their characteristics; a descriptive zoologist; (in later use) esp. a zoogeographer. Cf. zoography n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > zoology > [noun] > zoologist > descriptive zoographer1646 zodiographer1650 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. i. 180 One kinde of Locust..by Zoographers called mantis . View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes ii. 61 Zoographers observe, That the Camelion has a very uncommon structure of his visive Organs. 1711 Brit. Apollo 2–5 May Others [sc. animals having only one horn] are mentioned by Zoographers. 1735 T. Dallowe tr. H. Boerhaave Elements Chem. I. ii. 41 We learn from the Zoographers, that there are some Animals that live on the Land, some in the Water, and others, that..are equally suited either to Land or Water. 1822 Morning Post 12 Dec. 3 Our Correspondent..is convinced, by the description which Zoographers give of the stork. 1867 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen 23 Oct. An accomplished zoographer..to describe the animals. 1905 Science 24 Mar. 472/2 It [sc. a snake] was stated to have been collected by his brother at Manila, and to say that the case puzzled the zoographers is to put it mildly. 1946 T. Barbour Naturalist's Scrapbk. 102 There is a growing tendency, on the part of many zoographers, to explain the distribution of all life everywhere on the assumption that migration took place. 2010 J. Farrell & M. C. J. Putnam Vergil's Aeneid viii. 110 The simile between the bear and the poet presupposes the belief by ancient zoographers that bear fetuses were born shapeless. 2. A painter or artist who specializes in depictions of animals or living creatures. Also (chiefly with specific allusion to ancient Greek or Latin): a painter or artist in general. Cf. zoography n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > painting of animals > painter zoograph1623 zoographer1656 zoographist1749 cattleist1834 animalist1993 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > painter or drawer of pictures portrayerc1385 portraitourc1405 zographer1570 picture maker1589 imager1605 delineator1631 iconograph1804 zoographer1814 depicter1837 iconograph1884 iconographer1888 portrayist1906 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Zoographer..a Painter or one that draws the pictures of beasts. 1736 Neve's City & Country Purchaser's & Builder's Dict. (ed. 3) Zoographer, a Painter of living Creatures. 1814 Sporting Mag. 44 66 This very clever artist and zoographer. 1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. June 406/1 The earlier writers on art,..who flourished before the age of Trajan and the Antonines, constantly entitle their books on zoographers, on zoography—this was their only usual denomination for painting, as if still life did not merit the name. 1855 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 490/2 We are willing enough to have the Athenian people painted as the lion..but we object to his adopting the practice of the ancient zoographers, and appending the epigram, ‘This is a lion’. 1983 G. Heard Hamilton Art & Archit. Russia (ed. 3) 134/2 A ‘zoographer’, that is to say one who excelled in drawing living beings. 1998 C. Fynsk tr. P. Lacoue-Labarthe Typography 87 Confirming the Platonic hierarchy of poiesis (the god, the demiurge, the zoographer—the painter). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1646 |
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