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geoponic, a. and n.|dʒiːəʊˈpɒnɪk|
Also 7 -ique, 7–8 -ick.
[ad. Gr. γεωπονικός, f. γεωπόνος husbandman, f. γεω-, γῆ earth + πον-, ablaut var. of πεν-, root of πένεσθαι to labour. Cf. F. géoponique.]
A. adj. Relating to the cultivation of the ground; agricultural. Also humorously rustic, countrified.
1663in Bullokar. 1675Evelyn Terra (1776) 2 But for a description of the rest..I shall refer the critical Reader to the old Geoponic authors. 1792A. Young Trav. France 283 In respect to the geoponic division of the soils of the kingdom, the rich calcareous plain of the north-eastern quarter first calls for our attention. 1827H. Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 21 The Remains of the Greek Geoponic writers. 1848Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 7 [Burlesquing Carlyle] A brown, parchment-hided old man of the geoponic or bucolic species. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. xii. (1891) 166 Two or three notabilities of Rockland, with geoponic eyes.
B. n.
†1. A writer on agriculture. Obs. rare.
1612Selden Notes to Drayton's Poly-olb. vi. 99 Naturalists, Historians and Geoponiques, as Varro, Columel, Pliny, Trogus and Solinus. Ibid. x. 165.
2. pl. The science of agriculture or husbandry; a treatise on this subject (= Gr. τὰ γεωπονικά).
1608Topsell Serpents 111 Which kind of fishing fraude, if you would better be instructed in, I must referre you to Tarentinus in his Geoponicks. 1699Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 115 Of Herbs and wholesome Sallets, and other plain and useful parts of Geoponicks. 1705Hearne Collect. 16 Nov. (O.H.S.) I. 78 A Book..of the Geoponicks. 1893Contemp. Rev. Jan. 3 Erroneous theories of the ‘science of geoponics’.
Hence geoˈponical a., geoponiˈcality nonce-wd. So also † geˈoponist, a student of geoponics; geˈopony, agriculture (Gr. γεωπονία; F. géoponie).
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. iii. 286 Authors Geoponicall, or which have treated de re Rustica, as Constantine, Marcus Cato, Columella, Palladius and Varro. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. iii. Diss. Physick 12 Such were call'd at first variously pro re natà, as Magists..Nurserists, Geoponists, Hygeists. 1753Gentl. Mag. June 267 A good geoponical reason may certainly be assign'd for it. 1814Last Act i. i, Posterity will call it the Twistonian system of geoponicality. 1882St. James's Gaz. 11 Mar. 6 They may even have the effrontery to be acquainted with georgics or geopony, commonly called agriculture. |
