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Pindaric

Pindaric \Pin*dar"ic\, a. [L. Pindaricus, Gr. ?, fr. ? (L. Pindarus) Pindar: cf. F. pindarique.] Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. -- n. A Pindaric ode.

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Pindaric

1630s, pertaining to or in the style of Pindar, from Latin Pindaricus, from Greek Pindaros, Greek lyric poet (c.522-443 B.C.E.).

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Or put it, that Port is the Homeric hexameter, Burgundy the pindaric dithyramb.

It is precisely these out-of-the-way and Pindaric medleys that are evidences of enthusiasm.