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A romaunt. [Obs.]

; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion South. Zeal for the good of one's country a party of m…

Romantic.

In a romantic manner.

A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo- classicism in poetry, and to have been thus u…

One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.

Romantically. [R.] Strype.

The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.

Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic. [R.] Dr. H. More.

A chiromancer.

Of or pertaining to chiromancy.

Of or pertaining to divination by water.

Conjuration. [R.] With all the necromantics of their art. Young.

Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.

Falsely romantic. The false taste, the pseudo-romantic rage. De Quincey.

Of or pertaining to pyromancy.

adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

tion, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.

One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.