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Caˈstalian, a.
[f. L. Castali-us + -an]
Of Castalia or the Muses. Also absol. Hence † Caˈstalianist.
1602Metamorph. Tobacco (Collier) 44 The Castalian Muses. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 274 Th' inspir'd Castalian Spring. 1783Cowper Task iii. 251 Lips wet with Castalian dews. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 53 This made the Castalianist or poet of yore, to be esteemed. 1863C. Reade Hard Cash iii. ii. 41 He had better have the courage to plunge into the Castalian stream, like Virgil and Lucan. 1882G. M. Hopkins Let. 4 Nov. in Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 159 What I call Castalian or Parnassian, that is the language of poetry draping prose thought. |