Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to engraving or carving, especially on precious stones.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to carving or engraving: as, the glyptic art. See glyptics.
- In mineralogy, figured.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to engraving, especially on precious stones.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to gem engraving.
- adj. (Min.) Figured; marked as with figures.
Etymologies
- Greek gluptikos, from gluptos, carved, from gluphein, to carve; see gleubh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“(Even in a lull, with only one drink to mix, he will not slacken his pace nor take a glyptic approach.)”
“Into the dossier it goes, and eventually the Firm, in Their tireless search for negotiable skills, will summon him under Whitehall, to observe him in his trances across the blue baize fields and the terrible paper gaming, his eyes rolled back into his head reading old, glyptic old graffiti on his own sockets ....”
“With us, wood has almost completely disappeared as a glyptic material.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
“This preposterous effort of the glyptic art has the one merit of serving as a finger-board.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
“The hieroglyphic characters were either engraved in relief, or sunk below the surface on the public monuments, and objects of hard materials suited for the glyptic art.”
“Museum came from the same palace as this specimen, the carving of which is not excelled by any period of the ancient glyptic art.”
“The glyptic art of Greece had been paralleled hundreds of years before it was born.”
“He would not confine it to glyptic art, nor indeed to art alone -- all the uses of life might be bettered by it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glyptic’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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gabardine, gabbart, gabble, gabbro, gabelle, gabion, gablock, gad, gadarene, gadoid, gadroon, gadzookery and 439 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
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Especially
Being a list of words which have "especially" in their definitions.
wringing-machine, especially, device, field, scrip, hit, catch, take, buck, flip, effluvium, proselyte and 107 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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Just Plain Weird.
Something about these words doesn't look or feel right. And yet... they're strangely appealing.
pumpkin, platypus, atlatl, pterodactyl, octopus, veldt, asparagus, aspic, lacquer, mastiff, weevil, lapis and 156 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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Art Terms
mannerism, nonrepresentational, pointillism, serigraph, alla prima, trompe l'oeil, assemblage, arabesque, polychromatic, naive art, lumina, impasto and 104 more...
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Some Words
jabot, knell, volant, crasis, confute, toxophilite, bursar, glyptic, indifferentism, spang, carrel, liberticide and 65 more...
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Atomic Number 4
BE - here and now - a star two step helium fusion
a real gem - emer(ald) emergeberyl, glucinium, phenacite, euclase, gadolinite, helium fusion, chrysoberyl, emerald, glucinum, aquamarine, Belur, sunspots and 18 more...
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