sympotical

English

Etymology

From Latin sympoticus or Ancient Greek συμποτικός (sumpotikós) +‎ -al.

Adjective

sympotical (comparative more sympotical, superlative most sympotical)

1. (rare) Synonym of sympotic.
   • 1825 June, “Horæ Germanicæ. No. XXI. [Christoph Martin] Wieland’s Aristippus.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XVII, number CI, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 679, column 1:

     The most ungrateful material becomes pliable under his [Socrates’s] touch; and the light sympotical mode with which he treats the most difficult points of philosophy and knowledge, rivets the attention of all about him, without a possibility of ennui.

   • 1981 August 5, Philip Howard, The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 6; quoted in “Plato”, in Henry Root [pseudonym; William Donaldson], editor, Henry Root’s World of Knowledge, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982, →ISBN, page 141, column 1:

     The sympotical form is still quite distinctive of British culture, from pubs to clubs. Drink still lubricates politics and business and pleasure for Britons as well as Greeks.

   • 1995, John A[ugustine] Madden, “Texts and Commentary”, in Macedonius Consul: The Epigrams (Spudasmata; 60), Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, →ISBN, page 245:

     The location of the poem among the drinking rather than the satiric epigrams offers a further clue. This suggests that Agathias regarded the epigram as more sympotical than satiric.

   • 2004, Renzo Tosi, “Diogenianus [2] from Heraclea”, in translated by protext Translations B.V., edited by Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, et al., Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World: Antiquity, volume 4 (Cyr–Epy), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, column 457:

     Remnants from one of his collections of satirical and sympotical songs in alphabetical order can be found in the Anthologia Palatina (mostly in bk. 11).