adoxographer

English

Etymology

adoxography +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /eɪdɒkˈsɒɡɹəfə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /eɪdɑkˈsɑɡɹəfɚ/
• Hyphenation: adox‧og‧ra‧pher

Noun

adoxographer (plural adoxographers)

1. (rhetoric) One who composes adoxography.
   • 2005, John W. Velz, “Adoxography as Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”, in Clifford Davidson, editor, The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages [AMS Studies in the Middle Ages; 26], New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, →ISBN, page 100:

     And here again we have a link to Feste, who, on the night of Epiphany at the last gasp of the Christmas season, not only plays the adoxographer as noted above, but in the guise of Sir Topas the curate, making the more or less sane puritan Malvolio out to be mad […]

   • 2008, T. Ross Leasure, “Spenser's Diabolical Orator and Milton's 'Man of Hell'”, in Christophe Tournu, editor, Milton in France, Bern: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 167:

     Loki proves himself an accomplished sophist – one that may be more precisely defined as an adoxographer (from the Greek, adoxos, meaning "ignoble") who, by rhetorical means, convincingly inverts the presumed categories of noble and ignoble action. It should come as no surprise that the practitioner of such rhetoric here is an angel fallen from grace since, traditionally, those sophists who constitute adoxographers are frequently of the demonic ilk.

Related terms

• adoxograph
• adoxographic
• adoxographical
• adoxographically
• adoxography