glyptic
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of glyptic
1810–20; < Greek glyptikós of engraving, of stone carving, equivalent to gly-pt ( ós ) carved (verbid of glýphein to engrave, hollow out) + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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She went to the uneven parallel bars, where she had scored back-to-back 10s in Montreal, and started her routine with glyptic precision and dancer's grace.
From Time Magazine Archive
Speed skating is a contained, glyptic art, etching heat applied to ice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sculpture in stone, whether granite, gem, or marble, while we accurately use the general term "glyptic" for it, may be thought of with, perhaps, the most clear force under the English word "engraving."
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
He would not confine it to glyptic art, nor indeed to art alone—all the uses of life might be bettered by it.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
With us, wood has almost completely disappeared as a glyptic material.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various
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