loric

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US/ˈlɔɹɪk/

adjective

Pertaining to or characterized by lore.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

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adjectiveloric (comparative more loric, superlative most loric)

comparative more loric · superlative most loric

  1. Pertaining to or characterized by lore.

    […] the loric and sacred dimensions tend to blur into one another.

    1982, Walter L. Brenneman, Stanley O. Yarian, Alan M. Olson, The Seeing Eye, page 157
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    The loric and sacred share a participation in the archetypal, repeating timeless and powerful themes.

    1991, James A. Swan, The Power of Place, page 137

    While the sacred seeks to maintain world through uniformly repeating its myths and rituals, the loric revels in the imperfections of handmade objects and the idiosyncrasies of obscure artisans and storytellers.

    1994, Walter L. Brenneman , Jr., “Croagh Patrick and Lough Derg: Sacred and Loric Space in two Irish Pilgrimage Sites”, in The National Geographical Journal of India, volume 40, page 116

    In Ireland's loric landscape, where the goddess inhabited all places simultaneously, Tara's king was more a spiritual than a political leader of the innumerable kings who married the innumerable regional goddesses.

    2003, Patricia Monaghan, The Red-haired Girl from the Bog, page 88

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nounloric (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyA cosmid vector derived from the lambda phage replicon.

    The cosmid vector loric ( 'lambda-origin cosmid' ) is designed to allow rapid mapping of restriction sites in cloned DNAs and thus to facilitate analyses of large regions of chromosomes.

    1985, P. H. Pouwels, Cloning Vectors: A Laboratory Manual, page 6
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    We describe the construction and use of a cosmid vector, loric, which is derived from the phage lambda origin of replication and appears to be more stable than ColE1-derived cosmids. Loric recombinants can be efficiently packaged in vivo to yield 100-300 micrograms of DNA per liter that is linear and has single-stranded cos ends.

    1985 May, P F Little and S H Cross, “A cosmid vector that facilitates restriction enzyme mapping.”, in PNAS, volume 82, number 10, page 3159

    In order to improve the stability of the recombinant cosmid and increase DNA yield, the ColE replicon was replaced with the lambda phage replicon (Little and Cross, 1985) creating the loric (or 'lambda-origin cosmid') vector.

    2005, Anatoly Ruvinsky, Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, Mammalian Genomics, page 69

Origin

loric · noun

Coined in 1985 by P. F. Little from the initials of "lambda-origin cosmid".

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