| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Of or pertaining to Horace, the Latin poet, or resembling his style.[Websters]
2. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb horatianly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (horatianly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective horatian.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "HORATIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1564. (references) |
Common Expressions: HORATIAN
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Horatian ode | An ode with several stanzas. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: HORATIAN
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Horatian Metre | Literature | 1: And lo! from the dry sands men their keels are hauling; 2: See Alcaic, Asclepiadic, Choriambic, Sapphic, etc. (See also Hexameters, and Hexameters And Pentameters.) 3: Now that the winter is past, blithe spring to the balmy fields inviteth, 4: Nor deadly Frost spreads over meads her palling. E. C. B. 5: (An). Book i. Ode iv. In alternate lines, one of seventeen syllables and the other of eleven, thus: 6: Cattle no longer their stalls affect, nor the hind his hearth delighteth, 7: Below is a translation of the first four lines in this Horatian metre (rhyming):. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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