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Definition of Epical
1. Adjective. Constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic. "Epic tradition"
Definition of Epical
1. a. Epic.
Definition of Epical
1. Noun. (context: literature) Any book containing 2 or more epics. ¹
2. Noun. (context: poetry) In epic poetry, a lengthy, revered narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. ¹
3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to epic literature; epic; having qualities of epics. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epical
1. epic [adj] - See also: epic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epical
Literary usage of Epical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic and Allied Forms of by Charles Mills Gayley, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz (1920)
"Weber gives all the necessary bibliography for this and other epical materials
... Various Other Epics and epical Material. A Brazilian epic, in Portuguese, ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"... old epical war,—like ceptance as history may to a certain the mutilated trunk
of Deiphobus extent be explained, but the facts, in the under world—if we ..."
3. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1892)
"The Indian warrior is an epical individual, dealing only with the ... It is
necessary that a population should have at all times an epical function, ..."
4. The Tale of the Great Persian War from the Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus, George William Cox (1861)
"We may condemn, if we think 'fit, the epical conception of history which he shared
with his countrymen ; but we can scarcely follow Mr. ..."
5. An introduction to the science of comparative mythology and folklore by George William Cox (1881)
"THE epical TRADITIONS AND POEMS OF THE ARYAN WORLD. THE great epic poems of the
Aryan nations have sprung from germs furnished by a mass of materials, ..."
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