acropolitan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of, pertaining to, or in the style of the Athenian Acropolis; compare acropolitan.

   “[…] a ferocious gang of Athenian officers, skyward, headed perhaps, by the triumphant Demosthenes, to the Acropolitan cliff, and to see her palsying form slugged down the abyss. The mangled head and trunk, and limbs, dumb in life’s last quivering gasp are the horrid subject of the epitaph.”

2. sıfat Of or befitting an acropolis, especially in lofty glory and in the capacity to inspire awe; compare Acropolitan.

   “At Hastings and other towns, where archæological ruins monopolise the central height, you see an unwitting abandonment of the acropolitan ideal.”