Horatianadj.n.
/həˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /həˈreɪʃən/ A. adj.
Belonging to or characteristic of the Latin poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, b.c. 65–8), or his poetry.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [adjective] > specific poets > Horace
Venusian1616
Horatian1750
1750 C. Smart (title) The Horatian canons of friendship. Being the third satire of the first book of Horace imitated.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. iii. 25 According to the Horatian maxim, a work of art ought to lie ripening (a maxim, the truth of which may, by the way, be questioned altogether).
1851 Tennyson in Life (1897) I. 341 A far-off echo of the Horatian Alcaic.
1925 C. D. Broad Mind & its Place xi. 492 It is wrong to live in accordance with the Horatian ethics.
1945 W. H. Auden Coll. Poetry 121 The bland Horatian life of friends and wine.
1965 B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irregular 14 Others may wonder whether such a book ought to have been published, even after an interval which now exceeds the Horatian decade.
B. n.
The language of Horace.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poetic diction > [noun] > language or expression of specific poet
Miltonism1802
Byronism1817
Shelleyism1822
Shakespearism1823
Tennysonianism1843
Virgilianism1850
Swinburnism1868
Swinburnianism1869
Browningese1880
Shakespeareanism1886
Whitmanism1889
Horatian1891
Whitmanese1893
Tennysonianness1915
Praedism1927
Horatianism1936
Miltonicism1936
1891 S. Mostyn Curatica 10 He capped my verse instantaneously, and for the next half-hour we conversed in Horatian.
Derivatives
Hoˈratianism n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poetic diction > [noun] > language or expression of specific poet
Miltonism1802
Byronism1817
Shelleyism1822
Shakespearism1823
Tennysonianism1843
Virgilianism1850
Swinburnism1868
Swinburnianism1869
Browningese1880
Shakespeareanism1886
Whitmanism1889
Horatian1891
Whitmanese1893
Tennysonianness1915
Praedism1927
Horatianism1936
Miltonicism1936
1936 F. R. Leavis Revaluation iv. 137 [Matthew] Green, in his Horatianism, is a good positive Augustan.
1964 Eng. Stud. 45 (Suppl.) 217 It shows a deeply felt appreciation of ethical norms, a truly English horatianism that Cobbett, for all his lack of a classical education, inherited from the eighteenth century.
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Horatian satire n. any of the eighteen poems comprising Horace's Satires, or a poem resembling these; (as a mass noun) the style of satire associated with Horace, characterized by gentle mockery and playful humour (opposed to Juvenalian satire n. at Juvenalian adj. Additions).
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1721 J. Dennis Orig. Lett. II. 434 That dexterous Insinuation, that fine good Sense, and that true Pleasantry, which are united in the Horatian Satire.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. i. iii. 134 These Horatian satires and epistles, travelling a middle road between prose and poetry, are equally admirable in their mechanism and..matter.
1867 Belgravia July 103 The Spectator, with its sparkling beauties of diction and its Horatian satire, was also the child of Addison and Steele.
1917 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 48 125 What light have we, then, as to the purpose and method of Horatian satire?
1920 C. H. C. Wright French Classicism i. iv. 48 To the didactic poem and formal satire Vauquelin himself contributed as much as anyone.., by his Art poétique itself and his Horatian satires.
2012 M. V. Tueth Reeling with Laughter vi. 101 Horatian satire can be found in the stand-up routines of most late-night hosts.
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