Citations:paedic

English citations of pædic and paedic

• 1896, Louis Menand, Miscellaneous Documents on Divers Subjects: As a Sequel to My Biography, Etc., from 1807 to 1896, Weed-Parsons Printing Company, page 50, footnote:

  Many years after I have found the word pedique did not allude to feet but to pais, a boy, from the Greek, and ought to have been spelt Orthopædique in French, in English Orthopædic. At that time the doctor knew not the suflix pedique ought to have been spelt pædic, from pais which is rendered in English or French by the diphthong æ for ai.

• 1942, Charles Henry Tyler Townsend, Manual of Myiology XII: General Consideration of the Oestromuscaria, C. Townsend & Filhos, page 141:

  Colorational response to the physical factors embraces melanism, while that to the organic factors embraces assimilative coloration and counterfeitism in color pattern. All such responses, both structural and colorational, must be classified and described, since they can not be shown on any percentage scale yet devised. For consideration of these responses, the following classification of morphologic characters is required: // 1) Chromatic — General coloration of fly. // 2) Morphic — General form of fly. // 3) Typic — Detailed external anatomic characters of fly. // 4) Goneic — Internal male and female reproductive system characters. // 5) Paedic — Characters of juvenile stages including egg.

• ibidem, page 145:

  Chromatomorphic-typogoneic parallelism with paedic divergence — The Goniini exhibit the following striking case composed of generically distinct elements within the supergenus Spallanzaniiae, inhabiting adjoining areas in the same region and very closely similar to each other in coloration, form, anatomic details and reproductive characters, but strongly contrasted in egg chorion and other juvenile characters. The generic distinctness of such elements can be established in the first instance only by dissections.

• 1993, Harold A. McDougall, Black Baltimore: A New Theory of Community, Temple University Press, →ISBN, chapter one: “Civil Rights and the New Property”, page 24:

  Base communities, of up to two dozen people, can provide us with support both in terms of human relationships (their private or paedic dimension) and in terms of social action (their public or imperial dimension).

• 2010, Jason Blake, Canadian Hockey Literature: A Thematic Study, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN (cloth-bound), →ISBN (paperback), chapter two: “The Hockey Dream: Hockey as Escape, Freedom, Utopia”, page 69:

  The longing to retreat from rule-bound hockey is a desire to move from one play pole to the other, from what Roger Caillois has called the ludic to the paedic end of the play continuum. Ludus satisfies the ‘taste for gratuitous difficulty,’ while paedia ‘is the indispensible prime mover of play [that] remains at the origins of its most complex and rigidly organized forms.’