Associations to the word «Pindaric»

Wiktionary

PINDARIC, adjective. Of or pertaining to Pindar
PINDARIC, noun. An ode of an irregular form erroneously derived from Pindar, popular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
PINDARIC FLIGHT, noun. A literary passage that has no logical connection to the surrounding work, or that is a long digression that becomes less and less related to the original passage
PINDARIC FLIGHTS, noun. Plural of Pindaric flight

Dictionary definition

PINDARIC, noun. An ode form used by Pindar; has triple groups of triple units.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne