Dictionary Oct. 2, 2014 Word of the Day exilic \eg-ZIL-ik, - TopicsExpress



          

Dictionary Oct. 2, 2014 Word of the Day exilic \eg-ZIL-ik, ek-SIL-\ adjective 1. pertaining to exile, especially that of the Jews in Babylon. Quotes However, Ovid can serve as an exilic model in a more subtle manner, as several chapters demonstrate in their exploration of a range of other, less obvious, Ovidian moves and poses. -- Jennifer Ingleheart, Introduction, Two Thousand Years of Solitude, 2011 Origin Exilic entered English in the 1870s. It is a combination of the word exile and -ic, a suffix that forms adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally in Greek and Latin loanwords, as in poetic and metallic.
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