tragelaphic

English

Etymology

From tragelaphus +‎ -ic.

Adjective

tragelaphic (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) Hybrid; neither fish nor fowl.
   • 1909, Maximilian A. Mügge (summarizing Friedrich Nietzsche), “Unseasonable Contemplations—Schopenhauer as Educator”, in Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Work, page 122:

     And he who has ever felt what it means in our present tragelaphic humanity to find a harmonious being, swinging on his own axis, unimpeded and free from dissimulation, will understand my happiness and amazement when I discovered Schopenhauer.

   • 1998, Alexander Nehamas, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault, →ISBN, page 188:

     […] I have composed a tragelaphic sort of work, partly a work of classics, partly of philosophy, partly of literary criticism, full of quotations acknowledged and deformed, indebted to various and perhaps not always compatible approaches.

   • 2011, Niketas Siniossoglou, Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon, →ISBN, pages 105–6:

     Those eager to compare Byzantium with the glory of ancient Greece to the detriment of the former might find in Gregoras’ self-portrayal as a modern Leonidas a tragelaphic mixture of Byzantine rhetorical exaggeration and unintentional self-parody.