Ossianic
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of Ossian, the poetry attributed to him, or the rhythmic prose published by James Macpherson in 1762–63, purporting to be a translation from the Scottish Gaelic.
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grandiloquent; bombastic.
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Origin of Ossianic
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Martin painted such republican effusions as The Bard, 1817, an Ossianic Welsh sage ranting from a cliff at English legions passing in the gorge below, prophesying the death of empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
So ripe were the times for the Ossianic poems that if they had not existed, someone would have had to invent them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet if his book of Ossianic poems was ten-fold better than it is, it would hardly give an enduring, or a brilliant gloss to the memory of James Macpherson.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
They are seldom without a natural and original poetic sense,—and their language has a wild Ossianic music.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
Were his forgeries perhaps instigated by the Ossianic mystification?
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
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