homeric

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Resembling or relating to the epic poetry of Homer.

   “In the beginning of the Fourth Book the poet [John Milton] introduces an Homerick cluster of similes; which seems to mark an intention of bestowing more poetical decoration on the conclusion of the Poem, than on the preceding parts of it.”

2. sıfat Of or pertaining to Greece during the Bronze Age, as described in Homer's works.

   “Women are often carried away by force; and the whole tribe, as in Homeric times, rise to avenge the wrong.”

3. sıfat Fit to be immortalized in poetry by Homer; epic, heroic.

   “At home he [John Ruskin] looks young & rompish at the meeting, at Hunts meeting he looked old & ungainly, but his power & eloquence as a speaker were homeric.”

4. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of Homeric.

   “At home he [John Ruskin] looks young & rompish at the meeting, at Hunts meeting he looked old & ungainly, but his power & eloquence as a speaker were homeric.”