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The time of evening; evening. [Poetic.] Spenser.

To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. [Obs.] Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth Gayton.

to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.

Done or performed extempore. "Extempore dissertation." Addison. "Extempore poetry." Dryden. -- n.

A tear. [Poetic] Shak.

The retina. [Poetic]

Plural of eye; obsolete, or used only in poetry. Shak. With such a plaintive gaze their eyne Are fastened upwardly on mine. Mrs. Browning.

, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem. The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral. Dryden.

One of the metrical tales of the Trouvères, or early poets of the north of France.

A name given generally and poetically to a sword, especially to the swords of Oriental and fabled warriors.

A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church. [Poet.] Such to this British Isle, her Christian fanes. Wordsworth.

arity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. Dryden.

hings done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. Neh. vi. 8. The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. Shak.

A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.

llectual and moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal. And bless their critic with a poet's fire.Pope.

nce; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett (Thucyd).

Dressed with garlands of flowers. [Poetic & Rare] Milton.

se, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent.

be true and just; and it is for men's health to be temperate. Tillotson. Aristotle is for poetical justice. Dennis.

Causing to forget; inducing oblivion; oblivious. [Archaic or Poetic] "The forgetful wine." J. Webster.