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d the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity. The heathen poet, in commending the charity of Dido to the Trojans, spake like a Christian. Dryden.

r out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.

An epic poem, which celebrates the exploits of the Spanish national hero, Ruy Diaz.

An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist.

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic. Had Virgil been a circular poet, and closely adhered to history, how could the Romans have had Dido Dennis.

To place in a particular situation; to suppy relative incidents. The poet took the matters of fact as they came down to him and circumstanced them, after his own manner. Addison.

Governed by events or circumstances. [Poetic & R.] "I must be circumstanced." Shak.

rse by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

To fit; to be adapted; to assimilate. [Poetic.] New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold But with the aid of use. Shak.

To dwell. [Poetic] Shak.

To wear clothes. [Poetic] Care no more to clothe eat. Shak.

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

Pertaining to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or to his poetry or metaphysics.

ted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy. The noble poem on the massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse. Macaulay.

America; the United States; -- a poetical appellation given in honor of Columbus, the discoverer. Dr. T. Dwight.

Composed or made; -- with of. [Poetic] A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton.

existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with. Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. Broome.

to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen.