Vergilian

American  

[ver-jil-ee-uhn, -jil-yuhn] / vərˈdʒɪl i ən, -ˈdʒɪl yən /

Or Virgilian

adjective

1. pertaining to or characteristic of the poet Vergil.

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Vergilian British  

/ vəˈdʒɪlɪən /

adjective

1. a variant spelling of Virgilian

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Other Word Forms

• pre-Vergilian adjective
• pseudo-Vergilian adjective

Etymology

Origin of Vergilian

1505–15; < Latin Virgiliānus; -an

Example Sentences

In the Ann�es de P�lerinage, redolent of Vergilian meadows, soft summer airs shimmering through every bar, what is more delicious except Au Bord d'une Source?

From Project Gutenberg

Prescott was an inveterate punster, and his puns were almost invariably bad; but when his bachelor friends reproached him for his desertion of them, he laughed and answered them with the Vergilian line,— "Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus Amori"— a play upon words which Thackeray independently chanced upon many years later in writing Pendennis, and � propos of a very different Miss Amory.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a Vergilian vision magnified a million times; it was based also to a large extent on his own experience at Monticello where he had proved that it was possible to manufacture tools, to bake bricks, to make furniture, and to maintain a comparatively large family on the products of the soil.

From Project Gutenberg

He is convinced that major league baseball plays a bardic, mythic role in American society; the long, recurring seasons are an ongoing epic, Homeric or Vergilian or Dantesque, a vital locus of rapt assembly where enduring values are enacted and passed on.

From Time Magazine Archive

Above its entrance was engraved a Vergilian tag, "Procul este, profani, "which freely translates as "Closed to non-experts."

From Time Magazine Archive