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Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

Always. [Archaic or Poetic] I would not live alway. Job vii. 16.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.

See Amianthus. [Poetic]

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

Angrily. [Obs. or Poetic] Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak.

uce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

To celebrate with anthems. [Poet.] Sweet birds antheming the morn. Keats.

ing to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets. He published a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of th…

Terror; dismay. [Poet.] Cowper.

ach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple.

The country of Arabia. [Archaic & Poetic]

Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.

Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.

wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.

As if; as though. [Obs. or Poetic] He lies, as he his bliss did know. Waller.

A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.