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Pindaric, a. and n.|pɪnˈdærɪk|
[ad. L. Pindaricus, a. Gr. Πινδαρικός, f. Πίνδαρος, name of a famous ancient Greek lyric poet. Cf. F. Pindarique.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the poet Pindar; written, writing, etc. in a style resembling or supposed to resemble that of Pindar.
1640Ben Jonson's Execration agst. Vulcan D ij b (title), Ode Pindarick On the Death of Sir Hen. Morison. 1656Cowley (title) Pindarique Odes. 1668Dryden Dram. Poesie Ess. (Ker) I. 97 We may use the benefit of the Pindaric way..where the numbers vary, and the rhyme is disposed carelessly. 1711Addison Spect. No. 58 ⁋13 Those admirable English Authors who call themselves Pindarick Writers. 1765Beattie To Churchill 34 He soars Pindaric heights. 1869Rogers Hist. Gleanings I. 19 He..built up Pindaric odes to the day of his death.
B. n. An ode or other poem, or a metre or form of verse, in imitation or supposed imitation of Pindar. (Formerly sometimes applied to an Alexandrine: see quot. 1697.) Chiefly in pl.
1685A. Behn (title) A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign. 1697Dryden æneis Ded., Ess. (Ker) II. 218 His Alexandrine line, which we call, though improperly, the Pindaric, because Mr. Cowley has often employed it in his Odes. Ibid. 229, I generally..make the last verse of the triplet a Pindaric. 1706Congreve Disc. Pindarique Ode A j, The Character of these late Pindariques, is a Bundle of rambling incoherent Thoughts, express'd in a like parcel of irregular Stanza's. 1876L. Stephen Eng. Th. in 18th C. I. 131 Wollaston..had turned the Book of Ecclesiastes into ‘Pindarics’ in order to give vent to his feelings.
So † Pinˈdarical a. Obs. = Pindaric A.; ˈPindarism [cf. F. pindarisme], Pindaric style, imitation or supposed imitation of Pindar; ˈPindarist, an imitator of Pindar, a writer of Pindaric verses; ˈPindarize v. [ad. F. pindariser (O. de St. Gelais, c 1500)] intr. (or with it), to imitate Pindar, to write in Pindaric style; trans., to make Pindaric.
1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, Resurrection (Note), This Ode is truly *Pindarical, falling from one thing into another, after his Enthusiastical manner. 1697Watts Horæ Lyr. ii. Freedom iii, Thus my bold harp profusely play'd Pindarical.
1713Steele Guardian No. 141 ⁋6 Sometimes she made me foam at the mouth..and act a sort of madness which the Athenians call the *Pindarism. 1867M. Arnold Celtic Lit. 144 [Celtic poetry] has all through it a sort of intoxication of style,—a Pindarism, to use a word formed on the name of the poet, on whom, above all other poets, the power of style seems to have exercised an inspiring and intoxicating effect.
1779–81Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 117 Perhaps the like return might properly be made to a modern *Pindarist.
1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 43 To vse the phrase of our descanting and *Pindarizing Poets. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xviii. (1737) 81 Water's good, saith a Poet, let 'em Pindarise upon it. |