Pierian
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the Muses.
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of or relating to poetry or poetic inspiration.
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of or relating to Pieria.
adjective
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of or relating to the Muses or artistic or poetic inspiration
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of or relating to Pieria
Etymology
Origin of Pierian
1585–95; < Latin Pīeri ( us ) of Pieria + -an
Example Sentences
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The following lines are: “Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:/There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain/And drinking largely sobers us again.”
From Washington Post
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’
From Literature
As soon as Sylvia was dressed she went round to the Airdales’; everybody she met on the way inspired her with a longing to confide in him the portentousness of the day, and she found herself speculating whether several business men, who were hurrying to catch the nine-o’clock train, had possibly an intention of visiting the Pierian Hall that afternoon.
From Project Gutenberg
The audience was much amused, because it supposed that Sylvius’s wish was a tribute to the profession of Mrs. Gowndry’s husband, and whatever faint doubts existed about the propriety of alluding in the Pierian Hall to a lavatory-attendant were dispersed.
From Project Gutenberg
My whole mind is concentrated in the Pierian Hall next October.”
From Project Gutenberg
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