georgic
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of georgic
1505–15; < Latin geōrgicus < Greek geōrgikós, equivalent to geōrg ( ós ) husbandman ( geō- geo- + -ourgos working, worker, akin to érgon work ) + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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A dog is “passant, sejant then couchant,” and beekeepers go about “their Georgic business…mobled in muslin, calm-browed comb-setters and swarm-handlers of the scattered thorps.”
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2014
Against the crack ships of Sir Percy's fleet, the Berengaria, Aquitania and Mauretania, Lord Essendon pits his Majestic, "world's biggest ship," his Olympic, his new Georgic.
From Time Magazine Archive
White Star will contribute its fleet of ten "ic" ships, including Majestic, Olympic, Homeric, Georgic and Britannic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coming up from Quarantine on the Georgic, Sir Arthur humorously told Manhattan ship reporters that he could not recall the number offhand, that he did seem to remember the final digit as a 6.
From Time Magazine Archive
Addison translated the fourth Georgic of Virgil, except the story of Arist�us; you may thence know what his taste was.
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John
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