Pindaric Definition

pindarik
adjective
Of, characteristic of, or in the style of, Pindar.
Webster's New World
Designating an ode having two metrical forms, one for the strophe and antistrophe and another for the epode.
Webster's New World
noun
A Pindaric ode.
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Noun

Singular:
Pindaric
Plural:
pindarics

Pindaric Sentence Examples

  • His Pindaric Odes, written at this period or earlier, in the manner of Cowley, indicate the rudiments of a real satirist, but a satirist struggling with a most uncongenial form of expression.

  • He collaborated with his father Apollinaris the Elder in reproducing the Old Testament in the form of Homeric and Pindaric poetry, and the New after the fashion of Platonic dialogues, when the emperor Julian had forbidden Christians to teach the classics.

  • Contemporary with the vases, Pindaric odes also describe agonistic triumph in terms of desire and its consummation.

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