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Definition of Rhapsodical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhapsodical
Literary usage of Rhapsodical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Synopsis of Popery, as it was and as it is by William Hogan (1847)
"If these men were to live now,—if Jerome and Chrysostom and Tertullian were to
utter such rhapsodical nonsense, what should we think of them or their ..."
2. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical by Alexander Chalmers (1812)
"... with a public letter to the university of Oxford," 1798 ; a rhapsodical epistle,
which the influence of his lordship's name operating on curiosity, ..."
3. Democracy and the Human Equation by Alleyne Ireland (1921)
"It is rhapsodical to accept the facts of material progress as evidence of moral
... It is rhapsodical to believe that any formal element in Government can ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The other produced at first the vaguest and most rhapsodical of all the movements,
as the type taken was the irregular declamatory recitative which appears ..."
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