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Definition of Senecan
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or like or in the manner of the Roman Seneca.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Senecan
Literary usage of Senecan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"But Italy very soon took the lead in senecan scholarship, and long maintained it.
Lovato de' Lovati (d. ... identity with the philosopher and the senecan ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"... and Portage formations, or senecan series.—At the base of the Upper Devonian
in New York, there is, locally, a thin bed of limestone (the Tully). ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"... and Portage formations, or senecan series.—At the base of the Upper Devonian
in New York, there is, locally, a thin bed of limestone (the Tully). ..."
4. A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury (1912)
"... and, on the other, the abortive attempt to introduce the regular senecan
tragedy— an attempt which almost immediately broke down and disappeared, ..."
5. Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1908)
"Hut all these writers of tragedy worked with a common purpose, to revive senecan
drama in their own day, and their plays adapted their themes and methods to ..."
6. Three Tragedies of Seneca: Hercules Furens, Troades, Medea by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1908)
"THE senecan TRAGEDIES Of all this mass of tragic literature we have to-day, aside
from inconsiderable fragments, only the plays which bear the name of ..."
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