Pindaric
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
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of elaborate form and metrical structure, as an ode or verse.
noun
adjective
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of, relating to, or resembling the style of Pindar
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prosody having a complex metrical structure, either regular or irregular
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Pindaric
1630–40; < Latin Pindaricus < Greek Pindarikós. See Pindar, -ic
Example Sentences
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Pindaric opus Can't wait till next week for this week's answers?
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Yet all her projects and administrative measures revolved within a circle of romantic raptures and Pindaric ecstasies.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
The Archbishop of Palermo, in his Pindaric eulogy of the Spiritual Guide, says that this admirable book is most especially suitable to the direction of nuns.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet
Conceivably he himself was unaware of his hostility until, more than ten years later, he was forced to criticise the poets who made the English Pindaric popular.
From A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. by Frederick Whiley Hilles
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