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Definition of Epithalamic
1. a. Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.
Definition of Epithalamic
1. Adjective. Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epithalamic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epithalamic
Literary usage of Epithalamic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Messages of the Poets: The Books of Job and Canticles and Some Minor by Nathaniel Schmidt (1911)
"... the work is without an analogy in the literature of any people. 6. The epithalamic
Theory It was suggested already in antiquity by Origen, Euse- bius, ..."
2. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"In parallel, Hopkins's epithalamic stranger hies headstrong towards his own
wellbeing, a secluded pool where he can satisfy his sensual hunger ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"1 It was, in fact, the custom of the epithalamic poets to close every stanza, or
division, with a burden, or refrein, which, running on some leading image, ..."
4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"But its subject—the loves and marriage of Cupid and Psyche — is essentially
epithalamic, and the treatment of it throughout so entirely of the same ..."
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