Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word amoebaean.

Examples

  • Naegleria fowleri is an opportunistic amoebaean-flagellate pathogen.

    Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Thus the boys sang in verses amoebaean, and thus Menalcas began the crowning lay:

    Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

  • Witness the sweet quiet example of idyllic work which I extract from a scene beginning in the regular amoebaean style of ancient pastoral.

    A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • She would have sketches of scenes between Delphica and M. Falarique, with whom the young Germania was cleverly ingenuous indeed -- a seminary Celimene; and between Delphica and M. M.tharete, with whom she was archaeological, ravishingly amoebaean of Homer.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • Delphica and M. M.tharete, with whom she was archaeological, ravishingly amoebaean of Homer.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • She would have sketches of scenes between Delphica and M. Falarique, with whom the young Germania was cleverly ingenuous indeed -- a seminary Celimene; and between Delphica and M. M.tharete, with whom she was archaeological, ravishingly amoebaean of Homer.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Every nerve was strained to outdo each other in carving all thoughts into a fillagree work of rhetoric; and the amoebaean contest was like that between two village cocks from neighboring farms endeavoring to overcrow each other.

    Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Lamb (who drank only water) retired almost with the dinner itself, nothing remained for men of our principles, the rigor of which we had illustrated by taking rather too much of old port before the cloth was drawn, except talking; amoebaean colloquy, or, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, a dialogue of "brisk reciprocation."

    Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.