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Definition of georgic in English: georgicnoun ˈdʒɔːdʒɪkˈdʒɔrdʒɪk 1A poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics. Example sentencesExamples - Bohls's comments on the eighteenth-century georgic are important and provide links to earlier essays in the volume.
- For Dwight, as we will see, the inability to escape such a recognition becomes a central problem for his georgic to resolve.
- This, in its essentials, is the empire Dwight's georgic reproduces as a model to his American readers, and the one he wants their labors to rebuild.
- English imperial georgics describe imperial expansion in such a way that virtuous, civilizing labor is rendered infinitely progressive.
- Newbery published his first collection of verse, Poems on Several Occasions, which included a blank-verse georgic in two books, ‘The Hop-Garden’, and lighter verse.
Synonyms pastoral, eclogue, rural poem - 1.1 The title of a poetic treatise by Virgil.
adjective ˈdʒɔːdʒɪkˈdʒɔrdʒɪk literary Rustic; pastoral. Example sentencesExamples - Exemplifying the vigilance of these figures, the georgic poet of Greenfield Hill is relentless, even obsessive, in exposing forces of dissolution and admonishing his readers to resist and counteract them.
- Through a truly imperial application of synecdoche, this georgic trajectory of empire occludes the dark sides of commerce and conquest.
- A full-length study of georgic poetry in colonial and early United States literature remains to be written.
- Heeding this georgic lesson, the republican villager contributes to the well-being of his community.
- Through his continued application of georgic strategies, he is returned to a truly Virgilian sense of the extreme volatility of the labor of imperial regeneration.
Synonyms rural, country, countryside, countrified, outdoor, rustic, agricultural, agrarian, provincial, grassy, green, verdant
Origin Early 16th century: via Latin from Greek geōrgikos, from geōrgos 'farmer'. Definition of georgic in US English: georgicnounˈjôrjikˈdʒɔrdʒɪk 1A poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics. Example sentencesExamples - English imperial georgics describe imperial expansion in such a way that virtuous, civilizing labor is rendered infinitely progressive.
- Newbery published his first collection of verse, Poems on Several Occasions, which included a blank-verse georgic in two books, ‘The Hop-Garden’, and lighter verse.
- This, in its essentials, is the empire Dwight's georgic reproduces as a model to his American readers, and the one he wants their labors to rebuild.
- For Dwight, as we will see, the inability to escape such a recognition becomes a central problem for his georgic to resolve.
- Bohls's comments on the eighteenth-century georgic are important and provide links to earlier essays in the volume.
Synonyms pastoral, eclogue, rural poem - 1.1 The title of a didactic poem on farming by the Roman poet Virgil.
adjectiveˈjôrjikˈdʒɔrdʒɪk literary Rustic; pastoral. Example sentencesExamples - Heeding this georgic lesson, the republican villager contributes to the well-being of his community.
- Through a truly imperial application of synecdoche, this georgic trajectory of empire occludes the dark sides of commerce and conquest.
- Through his continued application of georgic strategies, he is returned to a truly Virgilian sense of the extreme volatility of the labor of imperial regeneration.
- A full-length study of georgic poetry in colonial and early United States literature remains to be written.
- Exemplifying the vigilance of these figures, the georgic poet of Greenfield Hill is relentless, even obsessive, in exposing forces of dissolution and admonishing his readers to resist and counteract them.
Synonyms rural, country, countryside, countrified, outdoor, rustic, agricultural, agrarian, provincial, grassy, green, verdant
Origin Early 16th century: via Latin from Greek geōrgikos, from geōrgos ‘farmer’. |