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形容詞

symphoric (comparative more symphoric, superlative most symphoric)

1. (archaic, rare) Clumsy; accident-prone.
   • 1789, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation:

     Who would have endured in this place to have seen two such words as the phthano-paranomic or crime-preventing, and the phthano-symphoric or calamity-preventing, branches of the police?

   • 1989, Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison's Watching, →ISBN:

     Walk a mile in my snowshoes, I say, before you deal thus harshly with a poor, unfortunate symphoric nyctalopian, come at the dwindling twilight of his life to a state of repentance and hiatus hernia. Ah, you nullifidians, you!

   • 2008, Joan F (MI), quoting K. K. Stevens, Moonspins and Widdershins (2005), “Today's Word is for Janie”, in alt.fiftyplus‎ (Usenet):

     "Just unhook it and come on down. It’s very simple I assure you, old fellow. And perfectly safe unless you are symphoric perhaps."

2. Relating to or involving symphoria (any sense).
   • 1983, Manfred Faust, Roland Harweg, Werner Lehfeldt, Götz Wienold, editors, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Textlinguistik: Festschrift für Peter Hartmann‎:

     Both the symphoric (integrational) phase of the metaphysical, namely ‘mediation’ (cf. ⑥ and ?⃝) and our intermodal triad, termed ‘module’, derive from templates as ancient as the fundamental PH-PX asymmetry and the fundamental PX-SZ asymmetry. All of metaphysics is ultimately aimed at mediating between immortal PH and mortal PX.

   • 1998 April 1, Donald Theall, “Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication”, in Canadian Journal of Communication, volume 23, number 4, →DOI:

     Senn’s paper on “Symphoric Joyce” queried where the pun begins and ends and noted the “symphoric” quality of Joyce’s writing—bringing various nodes of signification together in the text.

アナグラム

• hypocrism