aeolistic

comparative more aeolistic · superlative most aeolistic

1. alternativeAlternative form of Aeolistic.

   Lord Peter, and the martyrologic, aeolistic, ass-skulled Jack, who are more than thumb-nail sketches or abstractions.

   1918, Robert Naylor Whiteford, Motives in English Fiction, page 78

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   Instead, Mitchell superintends only a coastal shipping firm with an appropriately aeolistic name, the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company.

   1993, Keith Carabine, Owen Knowles, Wiesław Krajka, Contexts for Conrad, page 212

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1. Pertaining to superfluous rhetorical flourishes; long-winded; bombastic.

   Even his letters, on the few occasions when he has recourse to such devices, are free of Aeolistic flourishes: "neither couched in bad Latin, nor yet graced by rhetorical tropes" (p. 252)

   1992, David Durant, “Aeolism in Knickerbocker's A History of New York”, in On Humor

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   The propagandists, advertisers, diplomats, lawyers, politicians, and academicians rank high in the Aeolistic hierarchy, and their distorted and empty pronouncements currently play an important role in determining and forming our system of values and beliefs.

   1965, Arnold M. Ludwig, The importance of lying, page 121

   This makes the narrator intentionally complex: "The Aeolistic narrator is a historian whose work involves, as an allegory, a satiric attack on political Aeolism and includes, as a casebook of bombast, a similar attack on Aeolistic historians..."

   1972, James Leslie Woodress, American Literary Scholarship, page 181