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Miltonic, a. (and n.)|mɪlˈtɒnɪk|
[f. Milton: see prec. and -ic.]
1. adj. = prec.
1708Gay Wine 15 Inspir'd, sublime, on Pegasean wing By thee upborne, I draw Miltonic air. 1818Byron Juan Ded. x, If Time, the Avenger, execrates his wrongs, And makes the word ‘Miltonic’ mean ‘sublime’ [etc.]. 1886Swinburne Misc. 14 A Shakespearean adept may be a Miltonic believer.
2. quasi-n. Miltonic language.
1712Henley Spect. No. 396 ⁋2 That Mungrel miscreated (to speak in Miltonic) kind of Wit, vulgarly termed the Pun.
3. n. pl. Verses of Milton; verses, or style, typical of Milton.
1792Cowper Wks. (1837) XV. 237 Having translated all the Latin and Italian Miltonics, I was proceeding merrily with the Commentary on the Paradise Lost. 1928O. Barfield Poetic Diction x. 177 No one would have dreamed of employing the stale Miltonics, which lay at the bottom of so much eighteenth-century ‘poetic diction’, in prose, however imaginative. 1944F. R. Leavis in Scrutiny XII. 202 Johnson's disapproval of Gray's Pinderick sublimities goes with his disapproval of Miltonics.
Hence Milˈtonically adv.
1853De Quincey Autobiogr. Sk. I. i. 2, I here record the entire list of my brothers and sisters..and Miltonically I include myself. 1905Q. Rev. July 8 To speak Miltonically, the Muse utters the oracle, and her ‘prophet’ renders it in rhyme. |