Lexicographical Neighbors of Neophytic
Literary usage of Neophytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"... during which gymnosperms—conifers and cycads—obtained the predominance, while
foliage-trees were still absent; and the tertiary or neophytic period, ..."
2. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1873)
"... that is, through the medium of their own born chiefs and begs, the Georgian
Muslims were at first attached with proper neophytic fervour. ..."
3. Student Life and Customs by Henry Davidson Sheldon (1901)
"Some dire calamity, methinks, impends above the neophytic heads. But hark!
The High Pontiff draws nigh." The High Pontiff proceeds, in even more direful ..."
4. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1915)
"And, in this connection, it may be further suggested to the neophytic ophthalmic
nurse, and, perhaps, to some who hardly deserve to be so classified, ..."
5. Essays in the Study of Sienese Painting by Bernard Berenson (1918)
"My mentor, who perhaps had had his fill of emotion in the work of art> or perchance
was growing impatient of my neophytic aphasia, cut me short with: "Yes, ..."
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