Toxophilite
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /tɒkˈsɒfɪlʌɪt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Toxophilite is an adjective meaning Pertaining to archery.
Meaning
Pertaining to archery.
More Meanings
- Someone keen on or an expert at archery; a lover or practitioner of archery.
Example Sentences
Here the gardens of the place encroached with a somewhat wide sweep upon the paddock, and gave ample room for the doings of the toxophilites. Miss Thorne got together such daughters of Diana as could bend a bow, and marshalled them to the targets.
What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some "desirable" young man with those killing bows and arrows of theirs?
Word Forms
- toxophilites
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include toxophilitic, toxical, toxiferous, toxaemic, toxemic, taxidermic.
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