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Horatian

[ huh-rey-shuhn, haw-, hoh- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Horace.
  2. Prosody.
    1. of, relating to, or resembling the poetic style or diction of Horace.
    2. of, relating to, or noting a Horatian ode.


Horatian

/ həˈreɪʃən /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Horace or his poetry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Horatian1

1740–50; < Latin Horātiānus, equivalent to Horāti ( us ) Horace + -ānus -an
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Example Sentences

In this emblematical history of human life, he has taken his subjects from Horace; but certainly his conceptions are not Horatian.

These poems treated not upon the pleasures of wine and love—those fruitful and ever-varying subjects of the Horatian school.

Laboriously as he sought after perfection in his verse, he was never a master of the Horatian phrase.

His acquaintance with the Latin poets was limited, and seldom does a Virgilian or Horatian expression occur in his verses.

Wyatt was the first and last who succeeded in the genial, natural Horatian style.

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