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Virgilian, a. and n.|vəˈdʒɪlɪən|
Also 6 Sc. Virgiliane, 6, 8 Virgillian.
[ad. L. Virgiliān-us, f. Virgili-us: see -an, and cf. OF. and F. Virgilien.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, the poet Virgil; agreeing with, or suggestive of, the style of Virgil.
1513Douglas æneid Concl., Completit was this wark Virgiliane, Apon the fest of Marie Magdelane. c1590J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 78 Heirfoir to vichts venerian I quyt To form in verse virgilian perfyt Thair facund fassons. 1635–56Cowley Davideis iv. Note 38 In emulation of the Virgilian Verse, Quadrupedante putrem [etc.]. 1718J. Trapp tr. Virgil Pref. to æneis (1735) I. p. lxxxvii, What could be more well-manner'd, more delicate, and truly Virgillian? c1754Warton in Boswell Johnson (1904) I. 180, I told him, I thought it a very sonorous hexameter. I did not tell him, it was not in the Virgilian style. 1782V. Knox Ess. lxiii. (1819) I. 26 The style [of the poem] is beautiful and Virgilian. 1846Keightley Notes Virg., Georg. ii. 485 This mode of supplying the ellipse..is certainly the more Virgilian. 1886Swinburne Misc. 151 An instinctive dignity and precision not unworthy to be called Virgilian.
b. Virgilian lots [tr. L. sortes Virgilianæ], a method of divination consisting in taking a passage of Virgil at random.
1838–45Encycl. Metrop. XXIV. 737/1 It is said that Charles I. and Lord Falkland made trial of the Virgilian lots a little before the commencement of the great civil war.
2. Of agriculture: Practised according to the methods described in the Georgics of Virgil. Also of persons following these methods.
1724W. Benson Virgil's Husb. ii. Pref. p. xvi, I am certain the Husbandry of England in general is Virgilian. 1731–3Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xix. 271 The Virgilian Farmer must be content to have only his Labour for his Travel. 1764J. Randall (title), The Semi-Virgilian Husbandry, deduced from various Experiments.
B. n.
1. One who is specially devoted to, or skilled in, the study of Virgil's works.
1577Grange Golden Aphrod., etc. Q iij b, You would a good Virgillian be.
2. One who practises agriculture after the methods laid down by Virgil.
1731–3Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xix. 272 The Virgilian is commonly late in his sowing. Ibid. 279 This puts the Virgilians upon a Necessity of using Dung.
Hence Virˈgilianism, the characteristic style of Virgil; a Virgilian expression.
1850L. Hunt Autobiog. x. (1860) 164 When I had the pleasure of hearing him [Campbell] afterwards, I forgot his Virgilianisms. |