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
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Etymology
Origin of Pindaric
1630–40; < Latin Pindaricus < Greek Pindarikós. See Pindar, -ic
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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
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From Time Magazine Archive
This ode was evidently intended to be in the regular Pindaric form, and was divided into strophes, antistrophes, and epodes; but it soon broke into irregularity.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
They are Greek, they are Pindaric, they are sublime, consequently I fear a little obscure; the second particularly, by the confinement of the measure and the nature of prophetic vision, is mysterious.
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Robert Carruthers
In the Victorian age, the ode, in its full Pindaric sense, has not been very frequently used.
From Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature by Edmund Henry Garrett
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