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单词 Ciceronian
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Definition of Ciceronian in English:

Ciceronian

adjective ˌsɪsəˈrəʊnɪənˌsɪsəˈroʊniən
  • 1Characteristic of the work and thought of Cicero.

    Ciceronian insight
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That last term, with all its Ciceronian resonance, is perhaps the most revealing.
    • As in The Prince, the point is made by way of an allusion to, and a sarcastic repudiation of, the values of Ciceronian humanism.
    • The treatise is written as a Ciceronian dialogue.
    • Camden's aims, and those of his imitators, were not influenced by the Ciceronian model of rhetorical history.
    • The essay itself has a Ciceronian title.
    • But this Ciceronian ideal, vividly though it is expressed in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy, came by the end of the century to seem nothing more than a fantasy.
    • For people raised on the old, Ciceronian interpretation of classics, this must indeed be disorienting.
    • Its three most distinctive features are: Ascham's dislike of corporal punishment; the Ciceronian technique of double translation; and his attitude to Italy.
    • In this respect, it resembles Ciceronian friendship.
    • He is also, in Ciceronian terms, a pretend friend.
    • Tertullian and Augustine transformed the inheritance of Ciceronian rhetoric into an art of preaching.
    • In effect this form of reasoning reverses the Ciceronian order of presentation.
    • Her work identifies precisely the ‘instrumentalizing’ qualities of Machiavelli that differentiate him from other, more Ciceronian, Renaissance humanists.
    • And here yet another Ciceronian maxim was always ready to hand.
    • Deeply imbued in Ciceronian ideas, and reacting sharply against the trends of his own century, his great book is a storehouse of sanity, humane scholarship and good sense.
    • The motive which led people to philosophize he described in Ciceronian terms as simply the quest for happiness.
    Synonyms
    impressive, imposing, majestic, extravagant, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, lofty, rotund, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, overripe, oratorical, rhetorical, turgid, flowery, florid, declamatory
    1. 1.1 (of speech or writing) in an eloquent and rhythmic style similar to that of Cicero.
      he was composing a Ciceronian memo
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Here was Bruni displaying his rhetorical skills as a Ciceronian orator, conducting a formal exercise in rhetoric and dialectic (persuasion through argument).
      • These guys give hour-long Ciceronian addresses to empty chambers on a regular basis.
      • In this century political speechmaking has tended to favor simplicity and conciseness, rendering Ciceronian floweriness less interesting.
      • The speech and its Ciceronian conclusion are delivered completely without sentimentality.
      • For work purposes (don't ask, long story), I have been reading random excerpts of Ciceronian speeches in the Latin (yes, * showoff * I can barely read some Latin) and English.
      • On 21 January 1712, as was the custom, he gave his inaugural lecture - in very elegant Latin and a style truly Ciceronian.
      • We live in a time and a culture where the concept of civility seems as dated as Ciceronian oratory.
      • The upper class elite were the ones using Ciceronian language.
      • These phrases are linked in the continuous prose of a reasoned argument that moves through the phases of a formal Ciceronian oration.

Rhymes

Aberdonian, Amazonian, Apollonian, Babylonian, Baconian, Bostonian, Caledonian, Catalonian, Chalcedonian, Devonian, draconian, Estonian, Etonian, gorgonian, Ionian, Johnsonian, Laconian, Macedonian, Miltonian, Newtonian, Oregonian, Oxonian, Patagonian, Plutonian, Tennysonian, Tobagonian, Washingtonian
 
 

Definition of Ciceronian in US English:

Ciceronian

adjectiveˌsisəˈrōnēənˌsɪsəˈroʊniən
  • 1Characteristic of the work and thought of Cicero.

    Ciceronian insight
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As in The Prince, the point is made by way of an allusion to, and a sarcastic repudiation of, the values of Ciceronian humanism.
    • The treatise is written as a Ciceronian dialogue.
    • And here yet another Ciceronian maxim was always ready to hand.
    • Deeply imbued in Ciceronian ideas, and reacting sharply against the trends of his own century, his great book is a storehouse of sanity, humane scholarship and good sense.
    • For people raised on the old, Ciceronian interpretation of classics, this must indeed be disorienting.
    • Its three most distinctive features are: Ascham's dislike of corporal punishment; the Ciceronian technique of double translation; and his attitude to Italy.
    • He is also, in Ciceronian terms, a pretend friend.
    • Camden's aims, and those of his imitators, were not influenced by the Ciceronian model of rhetorical history.
    • Tertullian and Augustine transformed the inheritance of Ciceronian rhetoric into an art of preaching.
    • Her work identifies precisely the ‘instrumentalizing’ qualities of Machiavelli that differentiate him from other, more Ciceronian, Renaissance humanists.
    • The motive which led people to philosophize he described in Ciceronian terms as simply the quest for happiness.
    • But this Ciceronian ideal, vividly though it is expressed in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy, came by the end of the century to seem nothing more than a fantasy.
    • That last term, with all its Ciceronian resonance, is perhaps the most revealing.
    • In effect this form of reasoning reverses the Ciceronian order of presentation.
    • The essay itself has a Ciceronian title.
    • In this respect, it resembles Ciceronian friendship.
    Synonyms
    impressive, imposing, majestic, extravagant, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, lofty, rotund, orotund, bombastic, grandiose, pompous, pretentious, overblown, overripe, oratorical, rhetorical, turgid, flowery, florid, declamatory
    1. 1.1 (of a piece of speech or writing) in an eloquent and rhythmic style similar to that of Cicero.
      he was composing a Ciceronian memo
      Example sentencesExamples
      • On 21 January 1712, as was the custom, he gave his inaugural lecture - in very elegant Latin and a style truly Ciceronian.
      • In this century political speechmaking has tended to favor simplicity and conciseness, rendering Ciceronian floweriness less interesting.
      • The upper class elite were the ones using Ciceronian language.
      • For work purposes (don't ask, long story), I have been reading random excerpts of Ciceronian speeches in the Latin (yes, * showoff * I can barely read some Latin) and English.
      • These phrases are linked in the continuous prose of a reasoned argument that moves through the phases of a formal Ciceronian oration.
      • Here was Bruni displaying his rhetorical skills as a Ciceronian orator, conducting a formal exercise in rhetoric and dialectic (persuasion through argument).
      • The speech and its Ciceronian conclusion are delivered completely without sentimentality.
      • We live in a time and a culture where the concept of civility seems as dated as Ciceronian oratory.
      • These guys give hour-long Ciceronian addresses to empty chambers on a regular basis.
 
 
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