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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These, too, are tinged with premonitions of loss that give shape to their georgic pleasures.
From The New Yorker
But only Blunk, aware that Wright had translated Virgil’s Third “Georgic” and committed much of “My Antonia” to memory, can tell you for certain that Wright knew both versions and chose Cather’s.
From New York Times
There is an impulse in these poems to inventory the natural world without the palliatives of conventional description; the paradox, as old as classical pastoral and georgic, is that our nature is to describe, an imperative that seems perfectly unnatural when measured against the unselfconscious work of bees or ants or oxen.
From The New Yorker
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
At the end of his first Georgic Virgil prays for the triumph of the one hope which the world saw—for the preservation and the rule of the young C�sar, and he sums up in a few lines the horror from which mankind seeks to be delivered.
From Project Gutenberg
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