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Definition of Epicism

1. epic quality [n -S]

Epicism Pictures

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Epicism

epicenters epicentra epicentral epicentral epicentre epicentrum epicerastic epichlorohydrin epichlorohydrin epichordal

epicier epiciers epicillin epicine epicine person epicism (current term) epicisms epicist epicists epicleidium

epiclike epiclinal epicoele epicolic epicomus epicondylalgia epicondylalgia externa epicondylar epicondyle epicondyle

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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