Lexicon

adjective

1. relating to or resembling the Socratic method of eliciting new ideas from another

[Full Dark House — Christopher Fowler]

noun (ARCHAIC)

meekness; gentleness.

[“Writing Past the Wall, or the Passion According to H.C.” (Introduction to Hélène Cixous’s Coming to Writing and Other Essays) — Susan Rubin Suleiman]

adj. (literary)

1. made of or likened to marble: the marmoreal skin took on the flush of color.

[The Waves — Virginia Woolf]

adj.

1. relating to the inner region of an organ, tissue, or structure

[Wildwood — Roger Deakin]

adjective

(of a poem, especially an Ancient Greek lyric) meant to be sung.

[Stefan Lorenzutti, in conversation]

n. 

1. the belief that the world can be made better by human effort

[Nicholson Baker — The Mezzanine]

adj. (literary)

(especially of a gas or vapor) foul-smelling; noxious. “the cloud of mephitic vapors lingered above our heads”

adj.

1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; wanton; libidinous.
2. Alluring by false attractions; having a gaudy but deceitful appearance; tawdry; showy: as, meretricious dress or ornaments.

[The Waves — Virginia Woolf]

noun

mis·​ce·​ge·​na·​tion | \ (ˌ)mi-ˌse-jə-ˈnā-shən

: a mixture of races

especially : marriage, cohabitation, or sexual intercourse between a white person and a member of another race

n.

1. A single unit; the number one

[The Reading Life — C. S. Lewis]