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epopee Now somewhat rare.|ˈɛpəʊpiː|
Also 8–9 -pée.
[a. F. épopée, ad. mod.L. epopœia; q.v.]
1. An epic poem (= epic B.). Usually the epic poem generically; the epic species of poetry.
1697Dryden æneid Ded., Both of them abhor strong metaphors, in which the epopee delights. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 23 The action of the drama or epopee..must be one and entire. 1823tr. Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) I. xvi. 465 The discovery of the comic epopee..The origin of the mock epopee. 1846Grote Greece II. xxi. 234 The age of the epos is followed by that of the epopee.
2. transf.
1846Grote Greece (1862) II. iii. 54 They may be said to constitute a sort of historical epopee. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. xiv. iii. 163 The Imitatio Christi is an epopee of the internal history of the human soul. |