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; 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.

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.

or carriage, as distinguished from one upon the outside. [Colloq. Eng.] So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourne, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three insides. Anti-Jacobin. Patent insides or outside, a name give to newspaper sheets printed on one side with general and miscellaneous matter, and furnished wholesale to off…

rry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.