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Virgilian

Virgilian adjective: of or pertaining to Virgil (Roman writer).

Adjective

Virgilian (comparative more Virgilian, superlative most Virgilian)

  1. Of or pertaining to Virgil (Roman writer)
    • This Virgilian diversion, together with the spectral thoughts incident to All Hallows’ Eve with its Witch-Sabbaths on the hills, produced in me last Monday night a Roman dream of such supernal clearness and vividness, and such titanic adumbrations of hidden horror, that I verily believe I shall...1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Very Old Folk
    • Through Mr. Burroughs, he met the other future luminaries of the Beat Generation and became, in the words of Mr. Burroughs's biographer, Ted Morgan, “a sort of Virgilian guide to the lower depths.”1990 June 10, Jan Herman, quoting Ted Morgan, “The Beatnick's Beatnick”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Proper noun

Virgilian

  1. An age forming part of the Carboniferous.

Forms of Virgilian

comparativemore Virgilian
superlativemost Virgilian
alternative formVergilian

Origin of Virgilian

From Virgil + -ian.

Words formed from Virgilian

Questions about Virgilian

What does Virgilian mean?
Virgilian means of or pertaining to Virgil (Roman writer).
What part of speech is Virgilian?
Virgilian can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Virgilian in the dictionary

  1. virgers
  2. virges
  3. virgie
  4. virgies
  5. virgil
  6. Virgilian
  7. Virgilianism
  8. Virgilism
  9. virgilite
  10. virgils
  11. virgin

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