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Anacreontic Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.
A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.
(a.)
Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutPertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.
anacreontic
\a*nac`re*on"tic\ (&?;), a. [l. anacreonticus.] pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the greek poet anacreon; amatory and convivial.
anacreontic
\a*nac`re*on"tic\, n. a poem after the manner of anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.
Anacreontic Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Anacreontics are verses in a meter used by the Greek poet Anacreon in his poems dealing with love and wine. His later Greek imitators (whose surviving poems are known as the Anacreontea) took up the same themes and used the Anacreontic meter. In modern poetry, Anacreontics are short lyrical pieces that keep the Anacreontic subject matter but not the meter.
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