zeuxis-likehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zeuxis-like_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZeuxis-like, adj.
Revised 2018

Zeuxis-likeadjective

  1. 1665–
    Resembling or characteristic of Zeuxis or his art (see Zeuxis n.); cf. Zeuxian adj.
    Stressed as ˈZeuxis-like.
    1. 1665
      His starry eyes..rowled to and fro in that Garden of Beauties, as if he, Zeuxis like, pickt out here and there a heavenly feature, to compose a Posie and mixture of all excellencies and perfections.
      J. Crowne, Pandion & Amphigenia i. 69
    2. 1850
      A vase containing white lilies..painted with such Zeuxis-like skill, that birds..have been seen attempting to..peck the flowers.
      A. Jameson, Legends of Monastic Orders 299
    3. 1942
      Nature was still his subject—but a nature no longer akin to the idea of a generalized form derived from a Zeuxis-like selection.
      Burlington Magazine February 36/2
    4. 2005
      They [sc. portraits] also were perceived to incorporate a Zeuxis-like deceptively magical replication of reality.
      M. M. Lovell, Art in Season of Revol. iii. 58

Originally published as part of the entry for Zeuxis, n.

Zeuxis, n. was revised in June 2018.