单词 | pindarize |
释义 | Pindarizev. Now rare. ΚΠ 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vi. 32 He doth only flay the Latine, imagining by so doing that he doth highly Pindarize it in most eloquent termes. 2. intransitive. To imitate the poetry of Pindar; to write or speak in Pindaric style. Also transitive with it. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > admiration or imitation of specific poet > imitate specific poet [verb (intransitive)] Petrarchize1593 Pindarize1662 Homerize1765 Skeltonize1822 Byronize1823 Shakespearize1837 Whitmanize1902 Miltonize1903 1662 R. Codrington tr. G. Ruggle Ignoramus 1st Prol. sig. B3 Pindarus do you thus Pindarize? 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Wks. (1737) v. xviii. 81 Water's good, saith a Poet, let 'em Pindarise upon it. 1869 tr. V. Hugo Man who Laughs in Appletons' Jrnl. 3 Apr. 2/1 He Hippocratized and he Pindarized. 1913 New Age 25 Sept. 636 How to Pindarise it. 1922 Amer. Hist. Rev. 27 435 The ambassador..must attune himself to the people he addresses; to ‘pindarize’ is not the way to touch the Swiss or the Dutch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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