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Antonyms for georgic

Grammar : Adj
Spell : jawr-jik
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɔr dʒɪk

Definition of georgic

Origin :
  • 1510s, Georgics, title of Virgil's poems on rural life, from Latin georgica, from georgicus (adj.), from Greek georgikos "of a husbandman, agricultural," from ge "earth" + ergon "work" (see urge (v.)). As an adjective meaning "related to agriculture" from 1711.
  • As in rural : adj country, not urban
  • As in country : adj rural, pastoral
Example sentences :
  • But there came an evening when we finished the Fourth Georgic together.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Harry Revel » by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
  • For the tribute to Gallus in the original draft of Georgic iv.
  • Extract from : « The Student's Companion to Latin Authors » by George Middleton
  • What remained to be said or sung about bees after the Fourth Georgic?
  • Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature » by John Addington Symonds
  • The whole form had to stay back on the last day and write out a Georgic.
  • Extract from : « The Loom of Youth » by Alec Waugh
  • Virgil in the third Georgic speaks of a murrain among cattle.
  • Extract from : « Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease » by John Grove
  • You will see by it how much his vile hint from the Georgic; and his rude one of my whining vocatives, have set me up.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • He wrote very little altogether, but produced a piece called "Blenheim," and a sort of Georgic entitled "Cyder."
  • Extract from : « History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
  • Georgic, jorj′ik, adj. relating to agriculture or rustic affairs.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
  • So Bob had to learn the fourth Georgic by heart, and did most of it (with extreme enjoyment) up in that very same tree.
  • Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 2 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
  • It was a sort of Georgic, giving complete instructions how apples are to be grown and cider to be made.
  • Extract from : « A Book of the West. Volume I Devon » by S. Baring-Gould

Synonyms for georgic

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