neoteric

alternative obsolete neoterical · alternative obsolete neoterick

1. not comparableModern, new-fangled.First known use 1590s

   Among our neoteric verbs, those in -ize are exceedingly numerous.

   1873, Fitzedward Hall, Modern English, page 294

2. not comparableNew; recent.First known use 1590s

   A few words on the two neoteric terms, cybertext and ergodic, are in order.

   1997, Espen Aarseth, Cybertext

   1 more example

   Should it all come crashing in on us . . . will there be enough luddites, whose hands remember, to free us from the chains of neoteric technology?

   1998 August 21, The Toronto Star

plural neoterics · alternative obsolete neoterical · alternative obsolete neoterick

1. A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).

   Galen himself writes promiscuously of them both by reason of their affinity; but most of our neoterics do handle them apart, whom I will follow in this treatise.

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 140

2. Someone with new or modern ideas.
3. historicalany poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.