empaestic
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ancient Greek ἐμπαιστικός (empaistikós, “embossed”), from ἐμπαίω (empaíō), from παίω (paíō, “strike”).
Adjective
[edit]empaestic (comparative more empaestic, superlative most empaestic)
- (art, rare) Embossed, especially of Ancient Greek art.
- 1897, “Two Reliefs from Assos”, in American journal of archaeology, page 512:
- Semper called attention to the empaestic character of the reliefs, and his remarks have often been repeated.
- 1949, Jewish Affairs, volume 4, page 11:
- The empaestic pictures of the Jews in the minds of those who dislike them are seldom devoid of any grain of truth: yet such images are always falsifications of the truth.