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View synonyms for opuscule

opuscule

[ oh-puhs-kyool ]

noun

  1. a small or minor work.
  2. a literary or musical work of small size.


opuscule

/ ɒˈpʌskjuːl /

noun

  1. rare.
    a small or insignificant artistic work
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Derived Forms

  • oˈpuscular, adjective
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Other Words From

  • o·puscu·lar adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of opuscule1

1650–60; < French < Latin opusculum, equivalent to opus work + -culum -cule 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of opuscule1

C17: via French from Latin opusculum, from opus work
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Example Sentences

The work has not yet crossed the sea, but we cannot help thinking that the colossal views of so great a mind are not to be entirely disproved in the delicate dimensions of an "opuscule," as the able little treatise of M. Montbeillard is called by the critics.

Say that I get to Sydney some time in April, and I shall have done well, and be in a position to write a very singular and interesting book, or rather two; for I shall begin, I think, with a separate opuscule on the Samoan Trouble, about 370 as long as Kidnapped, not very interesting, but valuable—and a thing proper to be done.

Note turned up, but no gray opuscule, which, however, will probably turn up to-morrow in time to go out with me to Stobo Manse, Peeblesshire, where, if you can make it out, you will be a good soul to pay a visit.

I shall write again about the opuscule; and about Stobo, which I have not seen since I was thirteen, though my memory speaks delightfully of it.

In this opuscule he points out that modern society is passing through a great crisis, due to the conflict of two opposing movements,—the first, a disorganising movement owing to the break-up of old institutions and beliefs; the second, a movement towards a definite social state, in which all means of human prosperity will receive their most complete development and most direct application.

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