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rhapsodical, a.|ræpˈsɒdɪkəl|
[f. as prec.]
†1. Of a literary work: Consisting of a medley of narratives, etc.; fragmentary or disconnected in style. Obs.
1659E. Martin His Opinion Let. i. (1662) 17 Dr. Heylin's Confutation of Fuller's Rhapsodical stories of the Church of England. 1692Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 315 [Prynne's works] are looked upon to be rather rapsodical and confus'd, than any way polite or concise. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy (1760) I. xiii. 75 It is so long since the reader of this rhapsodical work has been parted from the midwife, that it is high time to mention her again to him.
2. Characteristic of or of the nature of rhapsody (sense 4); exaggeratedly enthusiastic or ecstatic in language, manner, etc.
1783Blair Rhet. xxxix. II. 359 The Odes of Jean Baptiste Rousseau have been..justly celebrated... They are animated, without being rhapsodical. 1844Disraeli Coningsby v. vii, We..alternate between a supercilious neglect of genius and a rhapsodical pursuit of quacks. 1847Longfellow in Life (1891) II. 97 A very striking, rhapsodical, forcible..sermon. 1885J. Payn Talk of Town I. 213 The whole composition strikes me as rather rhapsodical.
3. Of the rhapsodist. rare.
a1822Shelley Ion Prose Wks. 1888 II. 126 Does it belong to the medical or rhapsodical art, to determine whether Homer speaks rightly on this subject? |