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
- Pindarically adverb
Etymology
Origin of Pindaric
1630–40; < Latin Pindaricus < Greek Pindarikós. See Pindar, -ic
Example Sentences
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But it was Johnson who brought the house down with his bombastic recital - in ancient Greek - of a Pindaric Ode for the London Games.
From Seattle Times
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 Project Gutenberg
Yet all her projects and administrative measures revolved within a circle of romantic raptures and Pindaric ecstasies.
From Project Gutenberg
They are genuinely Pindaric, that is, with corresponding strophes, antistrophes and epodes.
From Project Gutenberg
The peculiar variation in length of line found in the Pindaric ode belongs almost entirely to lyric poetry.
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