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adoxograph

noun /eɪˈdɒksɒˌɡɹɑːf/

  1. A work of adoxography.

    Polycrates, disciple of Gorgias, wrote in praise of mice, pots, pebbles. Others of bees, salt, those are the Adoxographs. Dio Chrysostomos has a praise of mosquitoes, parrots, and hair. Lucian, praise of the fly.

Where it comes from

From New Latin adoxus (“absurd, paradoxical”) from Ancient Greek ἄδοξος (ádoxos, “obscure, ignoble”) (from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δόξα (dóxa, “expectation”)) + -graph.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry adoxograph (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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