Ossianic
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Ossianic (comparative more Ossianic, superlative most Ossianic)
- Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard.
- Synonym: Ossianesque
- [1879], George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “[Impressions of Theophrastus Such.] A Man Surprised at His Originality.”, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such, Essays and Leaves from a Note-book, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 51:
- [F]or what I saw, the compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic.