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georgic
[ jawr-jik ]
noun
- a poem on an agricultural theme.
georgic
/ ˈdʒɔːdʒɪk /
adjective
- literary.agricultural
noun
- a poem about rural or agricultural life
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of georgic1
C16: from Latin geōrgicus, from Greek geōrgikos, from geōrgos farmer, from gē land, earth + -ourgos, from ergon work
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Example Sentences
But there came an evening when we finished the Fourth Georgic together.
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Virgil in the third Georgic speaks of a murrain among cattle.
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His fame will doubtless depend on the rustic Georgic poem, Memoria sobre el cultivo del maz en Antioquia.
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Johnson calls it a Georgic after the manner of Virgil, nor does it suffer from the comparison.
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Dryden gives a beautiful description of this spot in a note on the beginning of the Second Georgic, Vol.
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