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Senecan, a.|ˈsɛnɪkən|
[f. Seneca + -an.]
Pertaining to Seneca (see prec.) and the tragedies written by him and his imitators. Hence ˈSenecanism.
1885J. M. Hart in Nation 26 Mar. 264/2 The Senecan spirit of the ‘Gorboduc’ writers. 1903Seccombe & Allen Age of Shaks. I. 52 In 1594 appeared his [Daniel's] Senecan tragedy Cleopatra. 1934T. S. Eliot Elizabethan Essays 40 Much of Chapman's Senecanism has lately been shown..to be directly borrowed from Erasmus. 1978Studies in Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 173 Jonson's use of Hoskyns' essay as a foundation for his own brand of Senecanism looks back to the past as well as to the future in the development of English prose. |