Resembling or characteristic of Zeuxis or his art (see Zeuxisn.); cf. Zeuxianadj.
Stressed as ˈZeuxis-like.
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 & Amphigeniai. 69
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
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
2005
They [sc. portraits] also were perceived to incorporate a Zeuxis-like deceptively magical replication of reality.
Zeuxis-like typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
Zeuxis-like is in frequency band 1, which contains words occurring fewer than 0.001 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands
Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.
Frequency of Zeuxis-like, adj., 1840–2010
* Occurrences per million words in written English
Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.
The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.
For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.
Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.
Decade
Frequency per million words
1840
0.0005
1850
0.0006
1860
0.0007
1870
0.0006
1880
0.0006
1890
0.0005
1900
0.0005
1910
0.0004
1920
0.0002
1930
0.00006
1940
0.00004
1950
0.00001
1960
0.00001
1970
0.00001
1980
0.00002
1990
0.00003
2000
0.00003
2010
0.00004
Originally published as part of the entry for Zeuxis, n.