Crossword clues for neoteric
neoteric
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neoteric \Ne`o*ter"ic\, n. One of modern times; a modern.
Neoteric \Ne`o*ter"ic\, Neoterical \Ne`o*ter"ic*al\, a. [L.
neotericus, Gr. newteriko`s, fr. new`teros, compar. of ne`os
young, new.]
Recent in origin; modern; new. ``Our neoteric verbs.''
--Fitzed. Hall.
Some being ancient, others neoterical.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"recent, new," 1590s, from Late Latin neotericus, from Greek neoterikos "youthful, fresh, modern," from neoteros, comp. of neos "new" (see new). Related: Neoterism.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Modern, new-fangled. 2 New; recent. n. 1 A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer). 2 Someone with new or modern ideas.
Wikipedia
The Neotericoi ( Greek νεωτερικοί "new poets"), Neoterics or the Neoteric period refers to avant-garde poets and their poetry, specifically those Greek and Latin poets in the Hellenistic Period (323 BC onwards) who propagated a new style of Greek poetry, deliberately turning away from the classical Homeric epic poetry.
Their poems featured small-scale personal themes, instead of the feats of ancient heroes and gods. Although these poems might seem to address superficial subjects, they are subtle and accomplished works of art.
Usage examples of "neoteric".
Diesel-type power plant, for instance, that would operate without a flywheel, and a bright young Neoteric used any of the materials for architectural purposes, half the tribe immediately died.
We have never, in the memory of any Neoteric, been without your word before.
If he was trying to develop a Diesel-type power plant, for instance, that would operate without a flywheel, and a bright young Neoteric used any of the materials for architectural purposes, half the tribe immediately died.
Its very shape was changing, twisting and buckling with neoteric forces it did not understand.
Change, my dear, you will speedily have, to satisfy the most craving of women, if Willoughby, as I suppose, is in the neoteric fashion of spending a honeymoon on a railway: apt image, exposition and perpetuation of the state of mania conducting to the institution!
Then again, Chartrand realized, never before in history had the Vatican been sitting on what amounted to some sort of neoteric nuclear warhead.
I had already decided that there was another thing Great God Dangerfield had garbled: far from being an ancient race, the pigmies are neoteric, upstart usurpers who have appeared only recently on the scene to oust the peke and bear people.
The Lady Doris Grownsnatch of Grownsnatch House once came home to find her four pet corgis walking on their hind legs, smoking gold leaf Coronas, drinking violet label Lumlian port and angrily debating the importance of a neoteric treaty with the barbarian tribes of the Barren Lands in relation, specifically, to trade variability code practices, at Guild and sub-Guild level, and, generally, to its potential affect on the Stock Exchange, vis-a-vis devaluation of red-rimmed stock ownership and level-playing-field industrial macro-reform in the northern Realms.
For example, he wanted the Neoterics to figure out for themselves how to build shelters out of porous material.
The Neoterics promptly devised waterproof shelters out of the thin waterproof material he piled in one corner.
The Neoterics, in self-defense, used what strong material they had in hand to stop the inexorable death that threatened them.
Kidder that he had to make certain changes to increase his power over the Neoterics before they got too ingenious.
He was delighted with the pictures his camera had caught, showing the skillful work of a gang of Neoterics synthesizing rubber out of pure sulphur.
The Neoterics were working on a vibration field of quasi-electrical nature.
Experience taught Kidder that he had to make certain changes to increase his power over the Neoterics before they got too ingenious.