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▪ I. melic, n.|ˈmɛlɪk|
Also melick.
[ad. mod.L. melica, of obscure origin.]
A genus (Melica Linn.) of grasses of the tribe Festuceæ; a grass of this genus. Also melic-grass.
1787tr. Linnæus' Fam. Plants I. 46 Melica. Melic-grass. 1804C. Smith Conversations, etc. II. 108 In a few short months..Would velvet moss and purple melic rise. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 193 The mountain or wood melic-grass (Melica nutans). a1863J. Ingelow High Tide on Linc. Coast, From the meads where melick groweth.
▪ II. melic, a.|ˈmɛlɪk|
[ad. Gr. µελικός, f. µέλος song.]
Of poetry: Intended to be sung; applied spec. to the strophic species of Greek lyric verse. Hence applied to poets who compose such verse. Also absol. = melic poetry.
1699Bentley Phal. xv. 484 Stesichorus a Melic or Lyric Poet. 1850Mure Lit. Greece III. 28 The more delicate varieties of melic rhythm. Ibid. 56 Strophic odes..may be classed under two heads, Melic and Choric. 1886F. B. Jevons Greek Lit. 123 The history of melic begins for us with Terpander. Ibid. 160 Theognis was an elegiac and not a melic poet. |