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idyllic, a.|aɪˈdɪlɪk|
[mod. f. Gr. εἰδύλλι-ον idyll + -ic. Cf. F. idyllique.]
a. Of, belonging to, or of the nature of an idyll.
b. Forming a suitable theme for an idyll; full of natural simple charm or picturesqueness.
1856Mrs. Stowe Dred II. 68 How perfectly cool and inviting you look! Really, quite idyllic! 1861Sat. Rev. 7 Sept. 248 The Amante and Madonna of Ciullo d'Alcamo..to us appears to display a genuine and wonderful idyllic power. 1862Lowell Biglow P. Ser. ii. ii, Much might be..said on the topick of Idyllick and Pastoral Poetry. 1874Farrar Christ xlii, At Nazareth, with all its idyllic memories of His boyhood, and His mother's home. 1897Dowden Fr. Lit. iv. iv. 326 An Utopian visionary, an idyllic dreamer.
Hence iˈdyllical a. rare; iˈdyllically adv.; iˈdyllicism.
1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. viii. 164 The female heads are singularly noble and idyllically graceful. 1876Saintsbury in Academy 30 Dec. 622 They spend the winter idyllically. 1885Stevenson Dynamiter 117 A process..of idyllical simplicity. 1941L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats v. 86 This snob idyllicism. 1964Economist 25 Jan. 294/1 There is little idyllicism left. |