Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Sotades; Sotadean.
- A palindromic verse: so named apparently from some ancient examples of Sotadean verse being palindromic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the lascivious compositions of the Greek poet
Sotades .
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Examples
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Clazomenae = the buttocks, also a sotadic disease, so called from the Ionian city devoted to Aversa Venus; also used of a pathic, — et tergo femina pube vir est.
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Clazomenae = the buttocks, also a sotadic disease, so called from the Ionian city devoted to Aversa Venus; also used of a pathic,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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What could induce ZEUS (p. 366.) to call this inscription "sotadic?"
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I notice that a correspondent (Vol. vii., p. 336.) describes the Palindrome as being universally _sotadic_.
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There was also a club for sotadic debauchery called the Cent Gardes and the Dragons de l’Impératrice. 427 They copied the imperial toilette and kept it in the general wardrobe: hence “faire l’Impératrice” meant to be used carnally.
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a sotadic line; and to preserve the strictness of the imitation we should give it the name of Ook-koo. '
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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a sotadic line; and to preserve the strictness of the imitation we should give it the name of Ook-koo. '
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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There was also a club for sotadic debauchery called the Cent Gardes and the Dragons de l'Impératrice. [
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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