Word Meanings - PINDARISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imitation of Pindar.

Related words: (words related to PINDARISM)

• PINDARICAL
  Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.
• PINDARIC
  Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. -- n.
• PINDARISM
  Imitation of Pindar.
• PINDARIST
  One who imitates Pindar.
• IMITATION
  One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
• IMITATIONAL
  Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• PINDAL; PINDAR
  The peanut ; -- so called in the West Indies.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• NONLIMITATION
  Want of limitation; failure to limit.