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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects;
- Example: "Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things"
- Example: "adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

adoxography n 1: fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects; "Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things"; "adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers"