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glyptic

[ glip-tik ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to carving or engraving on gems or the like.


noun

  1. the act or process of producing glyptic ornaments.

glyptic

/ ˈɡlɪptɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to engraving or carving, esp on precious stones
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of glyptic1

1810–20; < Greek glyptikós of engraving, of stone carving, equivalent to gly-pt ( ós ) carved (verbid of glýphein to engrave, hollow out) + -ikos -ic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of glyptic1

C19: from French glyptique, from Greek gluptikos, from gluptos, from gluphein to carve
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Example Sentences

Now this glyptic business, begun long before the first palæolithic man trod earth, is far advanced; the river has sunk a gulley of near two hundred feet through the solid rock, and still pursues her way in the nether darkness, gnawing ceaselessly at the stone and leaving the marks of her earlier labours high up on either side of the present channel.

In the same historical district, where stand the ruins of Karakoram—long the centre of Turki and later of Mongol power—other inscribed monuments have also been found, all apparently in the same Turki language and script, but quite distinct from the glyptic rock carvings of the Upper Yenisei river, Siberia.

Speed skating is a contained, glyptic art, etching heat applied to ice.

She went to the uneven parallel bars, where she had scored back-to-back 10s in Montreal, and started her routine with glyptic precision and dancer's grace.

The first scene, where husband, wife and wife's lover trade epigrams, has some of the flavor of the early Noel Coward�without, unfortunately, Coward's fine, glyptic phrasing.

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