Homeric
adjective
of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
Homerically
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a word derived from
Homeric.
Example Sentences
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They include all the tribes of the West, Homerically described: the French trappers who first penetrated the wilderness, mountain men, cattlemen, sheepherders, cutthroats, railroad folk, beet tycoons, actors, industrialists, politicians and, finally, ecologists.
From Time Magazine Archive
He grasps the ponderous hatchet, and, Homerically speaking— “Now toils the hero: trees on trees o’erthrown, Fall crackling round him, and the forests groan.”
From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Archibald Webb
Chapman often caught the ideas of Homer, and went on writing Homerically; at once the translator and the original.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
Afterward, he went for Doctor Williams, deriding himself Homerically for playing the second act in the drama of the Good Samaritan, but playing it, none the less.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
But she, to speak Homerically, wished in that hour that the earth might gape and cover her confusion.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
