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epænetic

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἐπαινετικός (epainetikós), from ἐπαινέω (epainéō, I praise).[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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epænetic (comparative more epænetic, superlative most epænetic)

  1. (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

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  1. 1.0 1.1 †epæˈnetic, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)