Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the character of a bard or bards.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.
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- adjective of or pertaining to
bards
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being a bard or relating to a bard's poetry
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Examples
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As drama these productions are utter failures, though their lyric passages are often beautiful; their chief effect was to stimulate the "bardic" movement represented by von Gerstenberg, Kretschmann, and the Viennese Jesuit
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Their genre is steampunk, and their musical form is extraordinary: They tell stories, reviving the word 'bardic' that one could have thought was lost forever.
Anime Nano! 2010
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Like the third, this fourth sonata is more of a 'bardic' rhapsody on the subject than an attempt at actual presentation of it, although I have made use of all the suggestion of tone-painting in my power, -- just as the bard would have reinforced _his_ speech with gesture and facial expression. "
Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908
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Like the third, this fourth sonata is more of a 'bardic' rhapsody on the subject than an attempt at actual presentation of it, although I have made use of all the suggestion of tone-painting in my power, ” just as the bard would have reinforced his speech with gesture and facial expression.”
Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908
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The information on 'poetry' I have to advertize, is a bardic prose-poem attributed to Amergin and translated into English first, 1300 years after its composition by an anonymous bard, without title: 'the cauldron of poetry', so called because of the metaphorical conceit in the piece, of poetry being created in a person's three internal cauldrons: Warming, Motion & Wisdom.
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So, there's a lot to be getting on there with, Jackie, and Dear Readers, I suggest you check out the full piece and be open to recalibrating contemporary 'poetry' with an ancient text from the bardic source of British 'poetry'.
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Maybe the internet is a way to revisit the bardic tradition.
he's everything inside of you that you wish you could be. lnhammer 2009
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Unlike the promise of dolorous sentence scrawling offered by so many of the other far more pretentious and far more dead authors in whose image I have constructed my bardic fantasies, Carrie represents a modern view of a successful writer who seems to love what she does for a living.
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Unlike the promise of dolorous sentence scrawling offered by so many of the other far more pretentious and far more dead authors in whose image I have constructed my bardic fantasies, Carrie represents a modern view of a successful writer who seems to love what she does for a living.
Caroline Hagood: What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing 2010
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Some have called rap merely modern poetry, or the modern urban equivalent to bardic minstrels.
"Rap" as a Symbol for the Present… and Future? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008
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