Pindaric

American  

[pin-dar-ik] / pɪnˈdær ɪk /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.

2. of elaborate form and metrical structure, as an ode or verse.

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noun

1. Pindaric ode.

Pindaric British  

/ pɪnˈdærɪk /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling the style of Pindar

2. prosody having a complex metrical structure, either regular or irregular

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noun

1. See Pindaric ode

Other Word Forms

• Pindarically
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of Pindaric

1630–40; < Latin Pindaricus < Greek Pindarikós. See Pindar, -ic

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Pindaric

Then a kinsman, the great John Dryden, saw his verses and said: "Cousin Swift . . . nature has never formed you for a Pindaric poet."

From Time Magazine Archive

Pindaric opus Can't wait till next week for this week's answers?

From Time Magazine Archive

The fire of the poet, the reach of imagination, was reserved for the chorus, which frequently exhibited the most sublime specimens of lyric poetry, rivalling the loftiest strains of the Pindaric muse.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

But there is that great deference due to the memory, great parts, and learning, of that gentleman, that I think nothing should be objected to the latitude he has taken in his Pindaric odes.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden

His Anacreontic odes, dithyrambs and idylls earned the admiration of contemporaries, but his Pindaric odes lack fire, his sonnets are weak, and his idylls have neither the truth nor the simplicity of Quita’s work.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

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