Epic
['epɪk] or ['ɛpɪk]
Definition
(adj.) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); 'an epic voyage'; 'of heroic proportions'; 'heroic sculpture' .
(adj.) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; 'epic tradition' .
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Definition
(a.) Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style.
(n.) An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Narrative.
n. Narrative, poem, epic poem, heroic poem.
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Definition
adj. applied to a poem which recounts a great event in an elevated style: lofty: grand.—n. an epic or heroic poem: a story comparable to those in epic poems.—ns. Ep′icism; Ep′icist.—Epic dialect the Greek in which the books of Homer are written.
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Examples
- Moreover he outlined and partly drafted an epic poem on the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A passion, which is disagreeable in real life, may afford the highest entertainment in a tragedy, or epic poem. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That was an epic struggle, well worth the recording. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Epic poem--ten thousand lines-- revolution of July--composed it on the spot--Mars by day, Apollo by night--bang the field-piece, twang the lyre. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Milton in his day doubted whether an epic poem was any longer possible. Plato. The Republic.
- What we need to know about the Christian epic is the effect it had on men--true or false, they have believed in it for nineteen centuries. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Imitation, then, is devoid of knowledge, being only a kind of play or sport, and the tragic and epic poets are imitators in the highest degree. Plato. The Republic.
- These sagas, epics, and vedas do supply, in addition to arch?ology and philology, a third source of information about those vanished times. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They have consequently no epics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As Greece had her epics and so forth, the Romans felt that they too must have their epics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The main Greek epics were reduced to writing, and the text of the chief ones put in its present order in the time of the tyrant Peisistratus (_i. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Every Aryan people had its long poetical records thus handed down, its sagas (Teutonic), its epics (Greek), its vedas (Old Sanscrit). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But let us return now to the history preserved for us in the Aryan epics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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