adoxograph

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /eɪˈdɒksɒˌɡɹɑːf/    美 /eɪˈdɑksɑˌɡɹæf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A work of adoxography. rhetoric
    — Polycrates, disciple of Gorgias, wrote in praise of mice, pots, pebbles. Others of bees, salt, those are the Adoxographs. Dio Chrysostomos has a praise of mosquitoes, parrots, and hair. Lucian, praise of the fly.

词形变化

adoxographs plural

词源

From New Latin adoxus (“absurd, paradoxical”) from Ancient Greek ἄδοξος (ádoxos, “obscure, ignoble”) (from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δόξα (dóxa, “expectation”)) + -graph.
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