Homeric
[həu'merik]
Definition
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of Homer or his age or the works attributed to him; 'Homeric Greek' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.
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Definition
adj. pertaining to Homer the great poet of Greece (c. 850 B.C.): pertaining to or resembling the poetry of Homer.—Homeric verse hexameter verse the metre of the Iliad and Odyssey.
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Examples
- The Homeric fighting is chariot fighting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is that not rather against the Homeric line you quoted the other day, sir? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Did not the recollection of the heroic simplicity of the Homeric life nerve you up? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It is a but little known island, and Justinian, who is my very good friend, rules over it as a kind of Homeric king. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Or is there any Homeric way of life, such as the Pythagorean was, in which you instructed men, and which is called after you? Plato. The Republic.
- I am not particularly knowing, but there can be no great mistake about these little Homeric bits: they are exquisitely neat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- How simple is the Homeric practice of medicine. Plato. The Republic.
- He adapts mythology like the Homeric poems to the wants of the state, making 'the Phoenician tale' the vehicle of his ideas. Plato. The Republic.
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