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- adjective Pertaining to the Greek poet Anacreon and his manners;
jovial ,festive . - noun short
lyrical piece that is aboutlove andwine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why wert thou not present to applaud the only one of thy pupils who understood from that moment the expression, "anacreontic," as applied to a bow?
The Physiology of Marriage, Complete Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Why wert thou not present to applaud the only one of thy pupils who understood from that moment the expression, "anacreontic," as applied to a bow?
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Why wert thou not present to applaud the only one of thy pupils who understood from that moment the expression, "anacreontic," as applied to a bow?
Analytical Studies Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The word of the yesterday, according to my beloved AWAD, is anacreontic, and it means “celebrating love and drinking.”
The downside of success barbylon 2004
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Some days passed before I could rid my thoughts of Thecla of certain impressions belonging to the false Thecla who had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and fruitions of men and women.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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It gives me pleasure to draw the picture of those ideal amours which every warm-blooded youth of twenty has at one time or other cherished in his thoughts; to substitute virginal charms and graces for vice and harlotry -- and after the manner of those charming heathen poets who have so often filled our dreams with their fancies, to mingle the anacreontic with the idyllic.
French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard
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At times the members of certain social clubs gave in these rooms subscription balls of anacreontic tendencies, the feminine element of which was recruited among the popular gay favorites of the period.
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With equal acuteness and adaptation to character, he dedicated the poems to the Prince of Wales, an anacreontic hero.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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The peculiar verse of Skelton, styled _skeltonical_, is a sort of English anacreontic.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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He is the most fluent, imaginative poet of the eighteenth century and is especially successful in the pastoral and anacreontic styles.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word anacreontic
JM wonders how, as a teetotaller, he can ever have an anacreontic lost weekend.
May 26, 2010