Miltonicallyadv.
/mɪlˈtɒnɪkli/, U.S. /mɪlˈtɑnɪk(ə)li/ In the manner or style of Milton.
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Tennysonianly1964
1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 307 Turn now to the lines of Avitus, and with the exception of those on the Phoenix (itself a Miltonic image, and very Miltonically treated), you will find that there is a closer resemblance between Milton and the Bishop, than between Trapp and Milton.
1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 459/2 A strong Moral feeling..creates a soul under what..may well be denominated, Miltonically, ‘the ribs of death’.
1862 Continental Monthly Dec. 748/1 Even translations from the Greek are made Miltonically.
1905 Q. Rev. July 8 To speak Miltonically, the Muse utters the oracle, and her ‘prophet’ renders it in rhyme.
1974 MLN 89 815 One thinks..of the Old Testament..and the spirit moving—if not brooding Miltonically—over the face of the waters.
1985 ELH 52 434 Coleridge resentfully imagined Wordsworth using the authority of his erroneously conceived poetic persona—a Miltonically sublime and austere receptivity to Nature—as a domestic persona as well.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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