georgic
[jawr-jik]
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- a poem on an agricultural theme.
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Origin of georgic
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But there came an evening when we finished the Fourth Georgic together.
The Adventures of Harry RevelSir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
For the tribute to Gallus in the original draft of Georgic iv.
The Student's Companion to Latin AuthorsGeorge Middleton
What remained to be said or sung about bees after the Fourth Georgic?
Renaissance in Italy: Italian LiteratureJohn Addington Symonds
The whole form had to stay back on the last day and write out a Georgic.
The Loom of YouthAlec Waugh
Virgil in the third Georgic speaks of a murrain among cattle.
georgic
- literary agricultural
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- a poem about rural or agricultural life
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin geōrgicus, from Greek geōrgikos, from geōrgos farmer, from gē land, earth + -ourgos, from ergon work
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Word Origin and History for georgic
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.
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