epænetic
See also: epaenetic
English
editAlternative forms
edit- epænetic
- epænetick (obsolete)
- epænitic (erroneous)
- epænitick (erroneous, obsolete)
- epainetic
- epainetick (obsolete)
Etymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ἐπαινετικός (epainetikós), from ἐπαινέω (epainéō, “I praise”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĕpēnĕʹtĭk, IPA(key): /ɛpiːˈnɛtɪk/
Adjective
editepænetic (comparative more epænetic, superlative most epænetic)
- (rare) Encomiastic; laudatory; panegyrical; praiseful.[1]
- 1800, Edward Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum[1], page xxviii:
- The Epænetic comprehends the hymn, the epithalamium, the genethliacon, or what elſe tends to the praiſe or congratulation of divine, or on earth eminent perſons.
- 1850, The Quarterly Review, volume 86, pages 416–417:
- How and why Sir Thomas turned author is minutely told by himself. After the battle of Worchester, Sept. 3, 1651, his lodgings were sacked by some ‘ exquisite snaps and clean shavers, who handed over six score and eight quires and a half of his MS. to inferior and posterior uses;’ but happily ‘ one quaternion ’ was picked up in the street, and thence called Ekskubalauron — being ‘ the discovery in the kennel of a most exquisite Jewel, more precious than diamonds inchased in gold, the like whereof was never seen of any;’ a chosen specimen, in short, of his literary ‘ wares, brain‐babes, of far greater value than ever from the East Indies were brought in ships to Europe ’ — its ‘ scope ’ being — as he further explains — partly epænetick, partly doxologetickal.
- 1919, W. Compton Leith, Domus Doloris, John Lane company, page 199:
- It called for a very stalker’s skill to catch them off their guard; but there was a charm in the hard pursuit, and the practice of this epænetic became sport.
- 1969, Edmund Gosse, More Books on the Table[2], page 307:
- The critics enquired whether the poets excelled in “ the Epænitick ” or “ the Bucolick ” style, not whether they achieved beauty of expression or spirituality of thought.
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “†epæˈnetic, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)