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Augustan, a. (and n.)|ɒˈgʌstən, ɔː-, ə-|
[ad. L. Augustānus, f. Augustus: see -an.]
A. adj.
1. Connected with the reign of Augustus Cæsar, the palmy period of Latin literature.
1704Rowe Ulysses Ded., Favour and Protection which it [Poetry] found in the famous Augustan Age. 1859Merivale Rom. Emp. (1871) V. xl. 52 In the Augustan period this outer area was only partially occupied.
2. Hence applied to the period of highest purity and refinement of any national literature; and gen. Of the correct standard in taste, classical. Also, applied spec. to 17th and 18th cent. English literature; and absol.
1712J. Oldmixon Refl. on Dr. Swift's Let. 19 King Charles the Second's Reign, which probably may be the Augustan Age of English Poetry. a1745Swift Thoughts on Var. Subjects in Wks. (1897) I. 284 Charles the Second's reign..is reckoned, though very absurdly, our Augustan age. 1759Goldsmith Bee 24 Nov. No. 8. p. 235 (title) An Account of the Augustan Age of England. 1772H. Walpole Let. 21 July (1904) VIII. 184 What a figure will this our Augustan age make; Garrick's prologues, epilogues, and verses, Sir W[illiam] Chambers's Gardening, Dr. Nowel's sermon. 1819Pantolog. s.v., The reign of queen Anne is often called the Augustan age of England. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps vii. §7. 190 We must first determine what buildings are to be considered Augustan in their authority. 1861M. Arnold On Transl. Homer i. 29 Chapman translates his object into Elizabethan, as Pope translates it into the Augustan of Queen Anne. 1916G. Saintsbury (title) The Peace of the Augustans. Ibid. 389 To see the beauties, to hear the music, and to taste the sweetness or the tartness, the bitter and the salt, of Augustan poetry. 1952I. Jack (title) Augustan satire. Intention and idiom in English poetry 1660–1750.
3. Of the town of Augusta Vindelicorum or Augsburg, where in 1530 Luther and Melanchthon drew up their confession of Protestant principles.
1565R. Shacklock tr. S. Hosius's Hatchet of Heresies 71 margin, In his Apologie of the Augustane confession. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) 23 Som embracing..the Augustane, and som the Helvetian confession. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 281 They adhere to the Augustan Confession.
B. n. A writer of the Augustan age (of any literature).
1882Athenæum 25 Nov. 692/3 A picture of the later Augustans [i.e. writers of the reign of Queen Anne]. |