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neoteric
- /niːə(ʊ)ˈtɛɹɪk/ UK
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From Late Latin neotericus, from Hellenistic Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), from comparative of Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”).
adjective neoterical · neoterick
- Modern, new-fangled. Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.
- New; recent. Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?
noun neoterics · neoterical · neoterick
- A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer). Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.
- Someone with new or modern ideas.
- any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.
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