Definition of Epicism

1. epic quality [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epicism

epicentrum
epicerastic
epichirema
epichiremas
epichiremata
epichlorohydrin
epichlorohydrins
epichordal
epichorial
epichoric
epicier
epiciers
epicillin
epicine
epicine person
epicism (current term)
epicisms
epicist
epicists
epick
epicleidium
epiclesis
epiclike
epiclinal
epicness
epicoene
epicolic

Literary usage of Epicism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1896)
"It would seem more reasonable to preserve the epicism in all these places, as a feature of Sophoclean style. Aj. 869. ..."

2. The Mount: Speech from Its English Heights by Thomas Sinclair (1878)
"... just as Titian's girls, the lyric stage in painting to Angelo and Raphael's epicism, have not a vestige of the gigantesque, the heroic, the god-like. ..."

3. The Troades of Euripides: with revision of text and notes chiefly intended by Euripides, Robert Yelverton Tyrrell (1882)
"I. 786, but in those places it is a distinct epicism, and does not afford any ground for belief in the existence of such a meaning in an Attic poet. 212. ..."

4. The Greek Grammar of Frederick Thiersch by Friedrich Wilhelm von Thiersch (1830)
"... and were, therefore, to be treated as a peculiarity of these passages (a relic of epicism in the narrative, ie the Epic parts <И tragedy) ; Reisig, ..."

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