The Collaborative International Dictionary
Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.
Victorian period. See Dionysian period, under Dyonysian.
Dionysian \Di`o*ny"sian\, a. Relating to Dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the Dionysian, or Christian, era.
Dionysian period, a period of 532 years, depending on the cycle of the sun, or 28 years, and the cycle of the moon, or 19 years; -- sometimes called the Greek paschal cycle, or Victorian period.
Usage examples of "victorian period".
Boothby's sales have done much to inspire the recent reappraisal of this neglected Victorian period.
Of course, Maybrick had lived for years in Norfolk, Virginia and married an American girl, so he would've been intimately familiar with American slang from the late Victorian period.
That burden is the entire Victorian period, and Victorian dreams that toil and churn and thrust from the past.
We feel our own age to be deeply different from, for instance, the early Victorian period, and an eighteenth-century sceptic like Gibbon would have felt himself to be among savages if you had suddenly thrust him into the Middle Ages.
Just such a reaction took place in the Romantic Age-the first Victorian Period-following the too-rapid advance of the eighteenth century Age of Reason.
The university had the misfortune to do most of its building during that long Victorian period when architects strove like Titans to reverse all laws of seemliness and probability and when what had been done in England was repeated, clumsily and a quarter of a century later, in Canada.
Henry Keppel (1809-1904) was one of the foremost fighting seamen of the Victorian period.
Morton Manor proved to be an ugly substantial house of the Victorian period.
He had long straight hair, as pale as Kory's-though in the neon it looked candy-apple red-that fell straight down his back, and was wearing an open-collared Poet Shirt beneath a dark suit of the Earlier Victorian period.
He had long straight hair, as pale as Korysthough in the neon it looked candy-apple redthat fell straight down his back, and was wearing an open-collared Poet Shirt beneath a dark suit of the Earlier Victorian period.
You got into the Continental Bar by way of a longish corridor, both sides of which were lined with glass-enclosed relics of the Victorian period.
It also establishes a point of some literary interest, for there can be no doubt that a link exists between Flashman's German adventure and one of the best-selling novels in the Victorian period.
I realize that the Victorian period is rather more recent than most of your acquisitions, but the author's signature .