Meanings
- not comparableuncommonHybrid; neither fish nor fowl.
[…] I have composed a tragelaphic sort of work, partly a work of classics, partly of philosophy, partly of literary criticism, full of quotations acknowledged and deformed, indebted to various and perhaps not always compatible approaches.
1998, Alexander Nehamas, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault, →ISBN, page 1882 more examples
And he who has ever felt what it means in our present tragelaphic humanity to find a harmonious being, swinging on his own axis, unimpeded and free from dissimulation, will understand my happiness and amazement when I discovered Schopenhauer.
1909, Maximilian A. Mügge (summarizing Friedrich Nietzsche), “Unseasonable Contemplations—Schopenhauer as Educator”, in Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Work, page 122Those eager to compare Byzantium with the glory of ancient Greece to the detriment of the former might find in Gregoras’ self-portrayal as a modern Leonidas a tragelaphic mixture of Byzantine rhetorical exaggeration and unintentional self-parody.
2011, Niketas Siniossoglou, Radical Platonism in Byzantium: Illumination and Utopia in Gemistos Plethon, →ISBN, pages 105–6
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