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villatic, a.|vɪˈlætɪk|
[ad. L. villātic-us, f. villa villa.]
Of or pertaining to a villa or villas, or the inhabitants; esp. (after the original sense of villa), rural, rustic; village-.
The Miltonic passage has been freely echoed in the 19th c.: see the first group of quots. and 1822–56 in (b).
(a)1671Milton Samson 1695 The perched roosts, And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic Fowl. 1822Lamb Corr. (1870) 164 Widgeon, snipes, barn-door fowls, ducks, geese—your tame villatic things. 1889Gd. Words Nov. 786/2 [Jacob] herding the tame villatic sheep of his father.
(b)1751Johnson Rambler No. 147 ⁋8 He..consulted with her..how I might be..disencumbered from villatick bashfulness. 1771–2Ess. fr. Batchelor (1773) I. 162 Two rebellious enchanters, whom villatic rusticity styled, Cow-herds,—or Cow-boys. 1822–56De Quincey Confess. App. 284 Little asteroids that formed ample inheritances for the wants of this or that provincial squire, of this or that tame villatic squireen. 1846Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. ix. Introd., A feeling of villatic pride in beholding our townsman occupying so large a space in the public eye. |