Chias modus

See Chias mod on. a similar flavor. chiaoust, n. See chouse. chiaroscurist (kiä" ros-kö'rist), n. and a. [ The most perfect discipline is that of the colourists; for they see and draw everything, while the chiaroscurists must leave much indeterminate in mystery or invisible in gloom. Ruskin , Lectures on Art, § 159. II. a . Executed in chiaroscuro, or by a chia roscurist. Here is one of the sprays of oak. Beside it, I put a chiaroscurist drawing, Dürer's, from nature, of the common wild wall-cabbage. Ruskin, Lectures on Art, § 160. chiaroscuro, chiaro-oscuro (kiä"ros-körō, kiä"rō-os-köʻrō), n. and a. [It. (= F. clair obscur, > E. clair-obscure), lit. clear-obscure: chiaro, IMG:content-0258.png:[blocks in formation] from all combinations and groupings which could not be [Vase-painters] abstained, as a rule, in their designs expre ed without more chiaroscuro than was compatible with their simple monochrome outlines. C. T. Newton , Art and Archæol., p. 386. 2. A drawing in black and white.-3. A method of printing engravings from several blocks representing lighter and darker shades, used especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; also, an engraving so printed. Between 1722 and 1724, Kirkall published by subscription twelve chiaroscuros engraved by himself, chiefly af ter designs by old Italian masters. In these chiaroscuros the outlines and the darker parts of the figures are printed from copper-plates, and the sepia-coloured tints are afterward impre ed from wood blocks. Chatto, Wood Engraving, p. 451. mark with two cro -lines: see chiasm.] In rhet., the arrangement of repeated, parallel, or contrasted words or phrases in two pairs, the second of which reverses the order of the first: as, do not live to eat, but eat to live; or as in the following quotation: The children ought not to lay up for the parents , but the parents for the children . 2 Cor. xii. 14. chiastic (ki-as'tik), a . [ χιαστός , arranged diagonally (verbal adj. of χιάζειν : see chiasm , chiasmus), + -ic.] In rhet., of the nature of chiasmus.' Noticeable in Sallust is the chiastic arrangement cit us modo modo tardus in ce us, which found few imitators. Amer . Jour . Philol ., VI. 503.