Lexicographical Neighbors of Stylitic
Literary usage of Stylitic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves, and Life of Stones by John Ruskin (1879)
"... cannot but remain triumphant among monuments of scientific error,—bestowing
on their author a kind of St. Simeon-stylitic preeminence of immortality in ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1860)
"It is thus that we are all poets without knowing it, and are constantly using
figures, tropes, and other stylitic machinery while speaking of trifling ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1860)
"It is thus that we are all poets without knowing it, and are constantly using
figures, tropes, and other stylitic machinery while speaking of trifling ..."
4. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1839)
"Not that I approve of any stylitic monuments, unless in honour of Simon himself.
The Greek column is perfectly unfit for an isolated monument, ..."
5. Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852 by John Forbes (1853)
"A second of the Christian appropriations is the stylitic theory, which would
convert the Towers into anchorite pillars, for the display of such pious ..."
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