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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.

ction of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

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…

, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none. Dryden.

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.

ion; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem. You and love are still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.

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.

such a book to such an author. The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison.

To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.

o tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

The venomous asp. [Chiefly poetic] Shak. Tennyson.

To soil; to stain. [Obs. or Poet.] Beau. & Fl. Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield. Wordsworth.

The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.