epiclyadv.
/ˈɛpᵻkli/, U.S. /ˈɛpəkli/ In an epic manner; = epically adv.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [adverb] > in manner of epic or heroic
heroically1579
epically1804
epicly1831
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 480 Poems in which are pictured and narrated, epicly, national characters and events.
1839 Blackwood's Mag. 46 121 It had been sung..lyrically, narratively, dramatically, and epicly.
1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 July 7 e The producers of the Iron Butterfly's pretentious and epicly long ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ claim it sold 14 million copies.
2009 Evening Standard (Nexis) 29 May Asif Kapadia's partial return to form is an epicly realised polar fable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1831- to lay in ashes
- to lay in broad-band
- to lay in broadband
- to lay in dish
- to lay in for
- to lay in forbode
- to lay in his dish
- to lay in his neck
- to look for
- to look for a needle in a bottle bundle of hay
- to look for a needle in a bottle of hay
- to look for a needle in a haystack
- to look for cupids in the eyes
- to look for trouble
- to look forth
- to look forward
- to look forwards
- to look glum
- to look glum on
- to look good enough to eat
- to look grim
- to look in
- to look in the eye
- to look in the eyes
- to look in the face