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| gothic: \'gä th-ik\ adj 1611 [...] 3: of or relating to a style of fiction characterized by the use of desolate or remote settings and macabre, mysterious, or violent incidents. Source: Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
Goth: This is short for Gothic, as in Gothic novels like Frankenstein and Count Dracula, which feature moody, pale creatures with spooky stuff happening to them. Goth entails vampire fashions, gloomy, emotional music, and clove cigarettes. Clove cigs are even more toxic than tobacco, and more immediately dangerous. If you pass out, no real goth would stoop to give you CPR the position is ridiculous, goths don't sweat, and anyway death is okay.
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Gothic (góØik) 1. adj. of or relating to the Goths or their language // of a form of art, esp. architecture, which flourished in Europe from the late 12th c. to the Renaissance // of or relating to a class of sensational novels of the late 18th and early 19th cc.dealing with macabre or mysterious events in medieval settings // (loosely) medieval // primitive, barbaric 2. n. the Gothic language, extant mainly in fragments of the Bible translated by Bishop Wulfila (4th c.), the sole representative of East Germanic // Gothic architecture // Gothic type [fr. L. gothicus] - Gothic architecture, a development of the earliest Romanesque, spread from N.W. France to flourish all over Europe in the 12th-15th cc., as far afield as Finland, Portugal and Sicily. Each country tended to produce a national style of Gothic (*DECORATED, *PERPENDICULAR). Its distinguishing features are pointed or ogival arch, elaborate stone vaulted roofs, clustered columns and rich stone carving. Development of technique led to high buildings with walls consisting very largely of windows, the great stresses being taken by the arches themselves, by pillars, and by buttresses, often flying buttresses. The Gothic church or cathedral, seeming to aspire eternally heavenwards, is naturally taken as a symbol of medieval spirituality. But Gothic is a term applied also to castles, palaces and houses, as well as sculpture, painting and the minor arts (the word is here loosely used to mean 'of the later Middle Ages'). In France, England and Germany, Gothic can be seen mingled with Romanesque or merging into the later Flamboyant style. A renewed appreciation of Gothic appeared in the 18th and early 19th cc. Interest in the Middle Ages became a cardinal doctrine of Romanticism and a symbol of revolt against rationalism. Scholarship developed, and 19th cc. architects in Europe and North America began to produce Gothic buildings of great correctness as well as some of high imagination. Gothic was also applied to municipal and industrial buildings, but by the 1880s the movement gave way to greater eclecticism. Source: The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of The English Language (Encyclopedic Ed. 1989).
Goth·ic (gthk)
Of or relating to the Goths or their language.
Of or relating to an architectural style prevalent in western Europe from the 12th through the 15th century and characterized by pointed arches, rib vaulting, and a developing emphasis on verticality and the impression of height.
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Gothi·cal·ly adv. Source: Dictionary.com
Main Entry: 1Goth·ic
Main Entry: 2Gothic
Entry Word: Gothic Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary (Online)
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