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Ovidian

Ovidian \O*vid"i*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.

Usage examples of "ovidian".

Through it shine glints of Ovidian sophistry and the rich romantic colors of Moorish Spain.

London and Rouen, but the impecunious gallants bred on Arthurian romance and Ovidian sophistries in the entourage of the Countess of Champagne.

Through enactment, they were meant to feel themselves incorporated into a ritual of France Renovated: past, present and future arrayed and harmonized like some Ovidian metamorphosis.

This somatic outing borders on metamorphosis: the glands are like walnuts, and the bird tuberculosis has an almost Ovidian flavor to it, in addition to a scary sense of flight and flux, so that even the dead body in the casket is disturbingly active and on the move, a potent agent of transmission.