faunic

English

Etymology 1

From fauna +‎ -ic.

Adjective

faunic

1. Pertaining to fauna: faunal.
   • 1865, American Philosophical Society, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, page 242:

     Although this monograph of a single faunic group is not the place for a discussion of the history of the classification of the Myriapoda, yet it has seemed necessary to make this brief notice of and comparison between the works […]

   • 1888, Alex Everett Frye, The Child and Nature, Or, Geography Teaching with Sand Modelling, page 189:

     ... and the natural barriers of climate and relief that limit them in faunic regions, than to account for their presence there, or absence from other lands, where the conditions favor their development when once transported.

   • 1953, Raghu Vira, Indian Scientific Nomenclature of the Mammals of India, Burma and Ceylon:

     Our lexicons, ancient and mediaeval are rich in faunic names. In the West names have been derived from Greek and Latin. Similarly our names are derived from Sanskrit, the source-language of India.

   • 2006 July 27, A.M.O. Mohamed, Arid Land Hydrogeology: In Search of a Solution to a Threatened Resource: Proceedings of the Third Joint UAE-Japan Symposium on Sustainable GCC Environment and Water Resources (EWR2006), 28 - 30 January 2006, Abu Dhabi, UAE (Volume IV in DARE series), CRC Press, →ISBN, page 60:

     Option 14: Potential for recreational, faunic and landscape redevelopment].] This option is considered non-discriminatory because all treatment alternatives considered will result in re-opening of the canal to the public.

   • 2009, Les Atouts Economiques: Bilangual Guide of Economic Potentialities : [Cameroon]:

     This law enhances the putting in place of a National forestry plan of action with the long lasting management of forestry and faunic resources of Cameroon.

   • 2020 December 13, Sigurd Bergmann, Weather, Religion and Climate Change, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Eckert and Clark studied ceramic, architectural, and faunic data from a selected region and two excavation sites, and they were able to observe how both the imagery and use of birds in ritual contexts increased substantially […]

Etymology 2

From faun +‎ -ic.

Adjective

faunic

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of a faun.
   • 1823, The Rejected Addresses: Presented for the Cup Offered for the Best Address, on the Opening of the New Theatre, Philadelphia : to which is Prefixed the Prize Address, page 106:

     Love srikes the lyre with such exquisite numbers, That faunic Rage is lulled to gentle slumbers.

   • 1878, Ouida, Ariadnê: The Story of a Dream, page 194:

     ... in the same places , only with all the real faunic joyfulness gone out of it with the old slain Saturn, and a great deal of empty and luxurious show come in instead! It makes one sad, mankind looks such a fool.

   • 1920, Arthur Schnitzler, Hands Around (Reigen) A Cycle of Ten Dialougues:

     the curious observations of a faunic mind, but through the finer eyes of a connoisseur of things human. The Puritan fanatic with his jaundiced inhibitions or the moral ideologist with his heart of leather may toss the book aside […]

   • 2002, Brigid Brophy, In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 181:

     Picking out a faunic, shy, beautiful, gentle […]

   • 2012, Trebor Healey, Faun, Lethe Press, →ISBN, page 105:

     ... so that all he had to do was sit down and fall back on his elbows as he exploded and his consciousness disappeared into the mythic world of faunic orgasm: a huge bonfire exploded across his mind this time, sending off sparks, […]

   • 2012 January 1, Sascha Bru, Laurence Nuijs, Benedikt Hjartarson, Peter Nicholls, Tania Ørum, Hubert Berg, Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 181:

     ... and which simultaneously reviles her as an adulteress and “witch”, but also appears to celebrate her “devilish”, Dionysian sexuality in a procession described as “un triunfo de faunalias” (H13; a triumph of faunic rites).

   • 2015 March 8, Ernst Robert Curtius, Essays on European Literature, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 6:

     However controversial the Appendix Virgiliana may be, one thing is certain: Virgil's poetic and emotional beginnings approach a frivolity of soul and sense that combines, in a fashion we can scarcely conceive, the faunic with the sentimental.