Definitions for Pindaric

Pindaric Pin·dar·ic

Spelling: [pin-dar-ik]
IPA: /pɪnˈdær ɪk/

Pindaric is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in Pindaric (acdiinpr).

Definitions for Pindaric

noun

  1. Pindaric ode.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
  2. of elaborate form and metrical structure, as an ode or verse.

Origin of Pindaric

1630-40; Latin Pindaricus Greek Pindarikós. See Pindar, -ic

Examples for Pindaric

It may be worth noting, however, that none of his recorded comments on Pindaric verse antedate the publication of this ode.

An appropriate instrument was at hand in the Pindaric ode, the miscreation of a true poet, Cowley.

The cities could no longer welcome an Olympian winner with Pindaric hymns.

There is evidence that Flatman contemplated one more Pindaric, but perhaps it was not written, and certainly not printed.

How could a poet have bewailed his loves or losses in the stately structure of the Pindaric ode?

Haller was a good poet of the Pindaric kind; he was also an excellent statesman, and had rendered great services to his country.

It has no Pindaric involution, no Æschylean pompousness, no studied Sophoclean subtlety, no Euripidean concetti.

The splendor of the most gorgeous butterfly does not endure with the faint hue of the hills that gives Athens its Pindaric name.

The poets who wrote Pindaric verse in his praise complained that their flights of sublimity were beyond his comprehension.

It is precisely these rare and Pindaric mixtures which prove the poet's enthusiasm.

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