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rhapsodic, a.|ræpˈsɒdɪk| [ad. Gr. ῥαψῳδικός, f. ῥαψῳδός rhapsode or ῥαψῳδία rhapsody n.] 1. = rhapsodical 2.
1782V. Knox Ess. xv. (1819) I. 88 Many books of devotion, are written in that rhapsodic style, which wearies by its constant efforts to elevate the mind to ecstacy. 1787F. Burney Diary 16 Feb., I begged him to rise, and be a little less rhapsodic. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such viii, There is a fable that when the badger had been stung all over by bees, a bear consoled him by a rhapsodic account of how he himself had just breakfasted on their honey. 2. Consisting of the recitation of rhapsodies.
1846Grote Greece i. xxi. II. 188 note, It appears that there had once been rhapsodic exhibitions at the festivals of Dionysus. |