Citations:antipelargy

English citations of antipelargy

Reciprocal love, especially that between parents and children

• 1662, Archæologiæ Atticæ libri septem, page 232:

  For the Children thus to maintaine their Parents out of an Antipelargy, and to feed the old ones like the birds, it was commonly termed in one word γηροβονχοἶρ, and so Medea uses the word to her children at parting.

• [2010 March 11, Ammon Shea, “On Language”, in New York Times:

  These early dictionaries were filled only with “hard” words and did not bother with defining cow or apple, reasoning that everyone knew what words like that meant. Instead they sought to explain to the uninitiated the meaning of terms like desticate (to cry like a rat) and antipelargy (the reciprocal love children have for their parents).]