单词 | ossianized |
释义 | Ossianizedadj. Written in the style of Macpherson's alleged translations of Ossian's verse; represented or rendered in a heroically Celtic or magniloquent manner. See Ossianic adj. ΚΠ 1814 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 12 85 The Ossianized Iliad could do no injury to our literature. 1896 K. P. Wormeley tr. H. de Balzac Last Incarnation of Vautrin 272 That was in 1801... In those clays everything was Ossianized, and the baby was called Malvina. 1951 F. E. Faverty Matthew Arnold 153 The windiness, the wailing, and the mistiness of these Ossianized neo-Celts he takes to task. Such qualities, he maintains, are not truly Celtic. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Apr. c22/5 Girodet had already Ossianized him [sc. Napoleon]..in a bizarre 1802 work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1814 |
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