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cornucopian en · ADJ

Etymology

From cornucopia + -an.

Meanings

1. in great abundance, very abundant
   • With cornucopian Fire thou giv'st me strength, Caresses and golden hours and grace of sleep. 1912, Herman Scheffauer, The Masque of the Elements:
   • On Chicago Trio, New York Tenor, released this month on the Italian label Soul Note, his trio features two fellow fellow Chicagoans--Larry Kohut on bass, a steadying influence even during his sudden shifts to double time, and cornucopian pianist Jim Trompeter--and collectively it has the flexibility and tensile strength of metal mesh. 2001 May 18, Neil Tesser, “Jerry Steinhilber Trio With George Garzone”, in Chicago Reader:
   • In response, many researchers at the cutting edge of dealing with matter on the near-atomic scale have become aggressively matter- of-fact, squirming at the suggestion of cornucopian nanofactories or even humbler mass-produced nanodevices. 2000 November 24, Robert F. Service, “Atom-Scale Research Gets Real”, in Science, volume 290, number 5496, →DOI, pages 1524–1531:
   • The full mystic vision of Kali includes birth as well as death, the cornucopian vagina as well as the hungry mouth. 1990 October 26, Anthony Adler, “Dangerous Women”, in Chicago Reader:

Forms

Deriveds

cornucopianism