All 4 Uses of
generic
in
Moby Dick
- In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of Gay-Headers.†
Chpt 25-27
- The accursed shark alone can in any generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him.†
Chpt 58-60 *
- A sort of generic or Pantheistic vitality seemed to lurk in their very joints and bones, after what might be called the individual life had departed.†
Chpt 64-66
- But, besides the application to him of the generic remark above, this carpenter of the Pequod was singularly efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring in a large ship, upon a three or four years' voyage, in uncivilized and far-distant seas.†
Chpt 106-108
Definition:
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(generic) applicable to an entire class or group rather than to a specific thing; or a non-branded version of something such as a medication or grocery