Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of Ossian, or the poems of Ossian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard.
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mollusque commented on the word ossianic
. . . you are even less likely to be devoured by Watt's engine, a bugbear only for Ossianic and Neo-Gothic gentlemen . . .
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 12
September 29, 2008