chrysostomatic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) + στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).

Adjective

chrysostomatic (comparative more chrysostomatic, superlative most chrysostomatic)

1. (rare, literary) Eloquent.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Osip Mandelstam, translated by Clarence Brown and Robert Hughes, Conversation about Dante:

     The poem in its most densely foliated aspect is oriented toward authority, it is most resonantly rustling, most concertante just when it is caressed by dogma, by canon, by the firm chrysostomatic word.

   • 1903, St. John Lucas, The Absurd Repentance, page 128:

     And sink me, to quote the chrysostomatic Thicknesse, if I am not confusing æsthetics with ethics like any child of an age not exceeding six months.

   • 2002, Thor Mednick, Three Zeroes, page 40:

     And now, in the moment, these chrysostomatic longings were brought asunder before they could even take full shape, to be replaced by the frothing image of the maniacal pep-rally that was Millius Chiliastic.