The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heroic \He*ro"ic\, a. [F. h['e]ro["i]que, L. hero["i]cus, Gr. ?.]
Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
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(Sculpture & Painting) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
Heroic Age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.
Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry.
Heroic treatment or Heroic remedies (Med.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case.
Heroic verse (Pros.), the verse of heroic or epic poetry, being in English, German, and Italian the iambic of ten syllables; in French the iambic of twelve syllables; and in classic poetry the hexameter.
Syn: Brave; intrepid; courageous; daring; valiant; bold; gallant; fearless; enterprising; noble; magnanimous; illustrious.
Usage examples of "heroic treatment".
Six hundred was the maximum exposure normally compatible with survival, though, with heroic treatment, higher exposures had been survived.
Moreover, I'd had no more than three hours' sleep the previous night, my mind was tired and a bit fuzzy round the edges and it was my hope that the admittedly heroic treatment of exposure to an Arctic blizzard might help to blow some of the cobwebs away.
I sipped at the beer, it still tasted just as repulsive, but even this heroic treatment produced no inspiration.
I was still recovering from the heroic treatment of the drive-right pill and had not collected all my wits.
Later he was to learn that this last-resort heroic treatment, gripping a matrix, was used only at the point of death.