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satyrisk

satyrisk

English

Noun

satyrisk (plural satyrisks)

  1. (Greek Antiquities, rare) A little satyr.
    • 1850, John Leitch (translator), Karl Otfried Müller (author), Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (editor of the German second edition), Ancient Art and Its Remains; or, A Manual of the Archæology of Art, § 386, page 500:
      Heron also…mentions Satyrisks with wine-skins.

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References

  • NED VIII (Q–Sh; 1st ed., 1914), part ii (S–Sh), page 128/1, “Satyrisk”
  • OED (2nd ed., 1989), “satyrisk