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▪ I. rhapsody, n.|ˈræpsədɪ|
Also 7 rapsody, -idy, -idie.
[ad. L. rhapsōdia (applied by Nepos to a book of Homer), a. Gr. ῥαψῳδία, related to ῥαψῳδός rhapsode. Cf. F. r(h)apsodie.]
1. An epic poem or part of one, e.g. a book of the Iliad or Odyssey, suitable for recitation at one time.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 76 The grammarians in olde tyme spent moste of their studie and were moste famyliare in the rhapsodies of Homerus. 1640B. Jonson Horace A.P. 11 A Rhapsody of Homers [L. Iliacum carmen]. 1713Bentley Freethinking vii. (1743) 26 Poor Homer..wrote a sequel of Songs and Rhapsodies, to be sung by himself for small earnings. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v., Those [verses] of Homer, which..were at length, by Pisistratus's order, digested into books, called rhapsodies. 1886F. B. Jevons in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. VII. 298 The Διοµήδους ἀριστεία, which seems to have been a favourite rhapsody.
transf.1813Scott Let. to Byron in Lockhart (1837) III. ii. 101 Those who have done me the honour to take my rhapsodies for their model. 1817Moore Lalla Rookh 293 The youth..proposed to recite a short story, or rather rhapsody.
2.
†a. The stringing together of poems. Obs.—0
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. Explan. Words, Rhapsodie, a sowing together or conjoining of those Poems and verses..which before were loose and scattered. 1616Bullokar Eng. Exp., Rapsodie, a ioyning of diuerse verses together.
b. The recitation of epic poetry. rare.
a1822Shelley Ion Prose Wks. 1888 II. 119 A man professing himself a judge of poetry and rhapsody.
†3. A miscellaneous collection; a medley or confused mass (of things); a ‘string’ (of words, sentences, tales, etc.). Obs.
1574Life Abp. Parker To Rdr. C iv b, Certaine Rapsodies, and shredes off olde forworne storyes, allmost forgotten. 1580J. Hay in Cath. Tractates (S.T.S.) 34 The doctreine..is na other thing bot other the inuention of Iohne Calvin, or ane rapsodie of awld condamned heresies. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. iv. 48 Such a deed, As..sweete Religion makes A rapsidie of words. 1665Glanvill Def. Van. Dogm. 72 A meer rhapsody and confused ramble of they knew not what. 1699Bentley Phal. Pref. p. lxxvii, His whole Book..is nothing else but a Rhapsody of Errors and Calumnies. 1711Addison Spect. No. 46 ⁋1 That would look like a Rhapsody of Nonsense to any Body but myself. 1765H. Walpole Otranto ii. 59 Have done with this rhapsody of impertinence. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. I. i. vii. §20. 399 The treatise of Agrippa on occult philosophy is a rhapsody of wild theory and juggling falsehood.
†b. A literary work consisting of miscellaneous or disconnected pieces, etc.; a written composition having no fixed form or plan. Obs.
1602Davison (title), A Poetical Rapsody Containing, Diuerse Sonnets,..and other Poesies, both in Rime, and Measured Verse. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 207 Some old ragged rapsodies and overwoorne discourses. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne (1877) I. 56 There is no subject so frivolous that does not merit a place in this rhapsody. 1710T. Smith Let. in Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 53, I have lately got A. Wood's Rhapsody [sc. Athenæ Oxonienses]. 1764Chron. in Ann. Reg. 51 A treatise entitled Droit le roy, a rhapsody of all the prerogatives at any time attributed to the kings of England.
†c. A collection (of persons, nations). Obs.
1647Sanderson Serm. II. 217 A cento and a rhapsody of uncircumcised nations. 1654Vilvain Epit. Ess. iv. 90 The Queen of Wooers had a large rapsody. 1689Def. Liberty agst. Tyrants 120 According to the saying of Saint Augustine, those Kingdoms where Justice hath no place, are but a rapsody of freebooters. 1701De Foe True-born Eng. 21 Which Medly canton'd in a Heptarchy A Rhapsody of Nations to supply.
4. An exalted or exaggeratedly enthusiastic expression of sentiment or feeling; an effusion (e.g. a speech, letter, poem) marked by extravagance of idea and expression, but without connected thought or sound argument. Also without article.
1639Quarles Embl. iv. xv, O then my brest Should warble Ayres, whose Rapsodies should feast The eares of Seraphims. 1711Steele Spect. No. 30 ⁋2 To turn all the Reading of the best and wisest Writings into Rhapsodies of Love. 1771Junius Lett. liv. (1772) II. 232 If he means any thing more than a pompous rhapsody, let us try how well his argument holds together. 1784Cowper Task v. 677 Spend all the pow'rs Of rant and rhapsody in virtue's praise. 1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit IV. 187 ‘Upon my word, a fine rhapsody,’ said she, with a disdainful smile. 1839James Louis XIV, II. 353 After some wild and vehement rhapsodies..he was easily persuaded to retire. 1879Gladstone Glean. II. ii. 101 This looks like mere rhapsody.
5. Mus. An instrumental composition enthusiastic in character but of indefinite form.
1880F. Hueffer in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 147/2 The fifteen Hungarian Rhapsodies [of Liszt]. 1894Sir G. Parker Transl. Savage xii, Marion was seated at the piano, playing a rhapsody of Raff's.
▪ II. ˈrhapsody, v.
[f. the n.]
1. trans. = rhapsodize v. 2.
1822Blackw. Mag. Aug. 231/2 A conclusion, in which Sidney heartily joined, rhapsodying—‘O Paris, fatal was the hour!’ [etc.].
2. intr. = rhapsodize v. 3.
1899Westm. Gaz. 13 June 2/3 Miss Jane H. Oakley..rhapsodies this morning on ‘Our Guns’. 1909W. J. Locke Septimus xxi. 321 His face beamed as it had beamed in the days when he had rhapsodied over the vision of an earth one scab to be healed by Sypher's Cure. |