Definitions for Ercilla

Ercilla Er·ci·lla

Spelling: [er-thee-lyah, -see-yah]
IPA: /ɛrˈθi lyɑ, -ˈsi yɑ/

Ercilla is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in Ercilla (aceillr).

Definitions for Ercilla

noun

  1. Alonso de [ah-lawn-saw th e] /ɑˈlɔn sɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1533–94, Spanish epic poet; soldier in the conquest of Chile.

Examples for Ercilla

But in Portugal there had arisen a poet, in comparison of whose glory that of Ercilla is as nothing.

Ercilla represents him as very ardent in battle, sometimes fighting himself, sometimes urging on his soldiers, always in movement.

Ercilla has devoted the twenty-fourth canto of the Araucana to the splendid episode of the battle of Lepanto.

The poet Ercilla has made the name of the Araucanians so famous that it were improper now to change the appellation.

Raynouard observes, that Ercilla has taken Ariosto as his model, especially in the opening of his cantos.

It is denied by these writers, that Ercilla excelled all his contemporaries in heroic song.

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