Definition of "adoxographical"
adoxographical
adjective
not comparable
(rhetoric) Of or pertaining to adoxography; adoxographic.
Quotations
The manner is that of adoxographical, almost paradoxical (demens iudicio volgi), encomium, in that so far from apologizing for humble birth he finds in this the very foundation of his happiness and contentment.
1902, George Lincoln Hendrickson, “The Literary Form of Horace Serm. I 6 (Ad Maecenatem de vita sua)”, in American Journal of Philology, volume 23, number 4, page 393
"ADOXOGRAPHY," […] The former word, with the still uglier "adoxographical," would seem to be of transatlantic origin. Some years ago I drew attention (9 S. xi. 425) to the use of the adjective in an American periodical (The American Journal of Philology, xxiii. 393).
1910, William White, Notes and Queries, London: Oxford University Press, page 117
The Praise [The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus] has been called learned parody, mock eulogy, an adoxographical essay; and rightly so, for it is all that. But it is primarily satire […]
1969, Kathleen Williams, editor, Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Praise of Folly: A Collection of Critical Essays , Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, page 98
Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of Fronto.
1979, Carl Deroux, editor, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History , volume 1, Brussels: Latomus, page 111
[A]s is well known, [Alexander] Pope helped to improve [William] Wycherley's ‘adoxographical’ poem A Panegyric of Dulness.
1988, Emrys Jones, “Pope and Dulness”, in English Poets: British Academy Chatterton Lectures, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: British Academy; Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, page 111
Like Coquelin's ‘Norman’, Phaedrus' bumpkin is a typically ‘adoxographical’ hero (the inglorious written up): one facing a horde. The wisdom of the soil trounces city wit in stories meant for townspeople.
2001, John [Graham Wilmot] Henderson, Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 126
What Una recognizes as Despayre's "vaine words," and what [Edmund] Spenser himself identifies as "subtile sleight" (53:2 and 54:3) is the sophistical medium that facilitates adoxographical argumentation in canto ix of the Faerie Queene, as does the "false and hollow" speech of Belial whose tongue "droppt [not honey but sweet] Manna" (2.113–4).
2008, T. Ross Leasure, “Spenser's Diabolical Orator and Milton's 'Man of Hell'”, in Christophe Tournu, editor, Milton in France, Bern: Peter Lang, page 169
It must be noted that adoxographical vituperations are extremely uncommon in antiquity and that this exercise of Marcus Aurelius, praised by [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto for its elegant vocabulary but also criticized as an 'attack too mischievous' […]
2012, Marcel van Ackeren, A Companion to Marcus Aurelius, Chichester, West Sussex, Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, page 70