Pindaric

[pin-dar-ik]

adjective

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

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

noun

1. Pindaric ode.

Pindaric

/ pɪnˈdærɪk /

adjective

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

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

noun

1. See Pindaric ode

Other Word Forms

• Pindarically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pindaric¹

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

Example Sentences

But it was Johnson who brought the house down with his bombastic recital - in ancient Greek - of a Pindaric Ode for the London Games.

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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.

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Yet all her projects and administrative measures revolved within a circle of romantic raptures and Pindaric ecstasies.

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They are genuinely Pindaric, that is, with corresponding strophes, antistrophes and epodes.

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The peculiar variation in length of line found in the Pindaric ode belongs almost entirely to lyric poetry.

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