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Definition of Goliardic
1. Adjective. (originally) Relating to Goliards, wandering medieval students. ¹
2. Adjective. Describing a form of medieval lyric poetry that typically celebrated licentiousness and drinking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goliardic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goliardic
Literary usage of Goliardic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Verse Satire in England Before the Renaissance by Samuel Marion Tucker (1908)
"The goliardic Latin satire of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; ... The first
period of development begins with goliardic satire and satire in ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Proud of their scholarly attainments, they used Latin in their poetical compositions,
and thus arose a special literature, the goliardic poetry. ..."
3. Wine, Women, and Song: Mediæval Latin Students' Songs Now First Translated by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"One thing appears tolerably manifest; that many hands of very various dexterity
contributed to form the whole body of songs which we call goliardic. ..."
4. A History of French Literature by Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1912)
"The poems roughly classed as goliardic include, however, some by men of position who
... The goliardic poets belonged, indeed, to all lands and had that ..."
5. A History of French Literature by Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1912)
"The poems roughly classed as goliardic include, however, some by men of position who
... The goliardic poets belonged, indeed, to all lands and had that ..."
6. A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright (1875)
"... of this goliardic Latin poetry, written in the thirteenth century. It belonged
originally to one of the great Benedictine abbeys in Bavaria, ..."
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