adoxographic

It had furnished material for the adoxographic exercises of Polycrates, Lucian, and Philostratus, and for the scepticism of Sextus Empiricus; similarly, it became a part of the stock of sixteenth century paradossi writers such as Ortensio Lando […]

1959, Cesare Barbieri Courier, volume 2, numbers 1–2, Hartford, Conn.: Cesare Barbieri Center of Italian Studies at Trinity College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4

[T]he adoxographic prettying up which he [Ben Jonson] indulged in merely drew his characters closer to the speech and manners of their courtly parallels.

1975, Dale B. J. Randall, Jonson's Gypsies Unmasked: Background and Theme of the Gypsies Metamorphos'd, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 124

Huntly, who might be supposed to have overheard a rehearsal of the presentation, indulges in some adoxographic praise of their "rare discord of bells, pipes and tabors" […]

1986, Dale B. J. Randall, "Theatres of Greatness": A Revisionary View of Ford's Perkin Warbeck [ELS Monograph Series; 37], Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, →ISBN, page 57

A more classical, adoxographic tone characterizes an encomium of the ass contained in Pero Mexía's 1547 Diálogos. In it the donkey is praised for its humility and integrity, as well as for its practicality: the she-ass's milk is recommended as both an antidote for poison and a skin cleanser, the animal is a good mount for soldiers, and even its meat is tasty.

1991, Adrienne Laskier Martín, Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 141

We should wonder what this trade-off, of sermonis amari ('so acid a talker', i.e. 'bitter whine'), v. 7, in sermo, has to say to the presentation of early Horatian poetics: the abrasive sting of an adoxographic poetry after Callimachus.

1998, John [Graham Wilmot] Henderson, Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 88