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bucolic, a. and n.|bjuːˈkɒlɪk|
Also 6 bucolique, bucolik, 7 -ike, -icke, 8 -ick.
[ad. L. būcolic-us, a. Gr. βουκολικ-ός, f. βουκόλος herdsman.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to herdsmen or shepherds; pastoral.
1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3) Bucolike, pertaining to beasts or heardsmen. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 37 ⁋10 The Pollio of Virgil..is a composition truly bucolick. 1803Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 50 He goes on, mingling bucolic details and sentimental effusions. 1863M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer's Greece II. xvii. 167 The shepherds and shepherdesses..milk the cattle, and compose bucolic poems. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 308 Bucolic poetry.
2. Pertaining to country life; rural, rustic, countryfied. (Somewhat humorous.)
1846Lytton Lucretia (1853) 247 The second [partner] had a bucolic turn. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede 67 The keenest of bucolic minds felt a whispering awe at the sight of the gentry. 1875A. R. Hope Schoolboy Fr. 308 A sturdy-looking bucolic individual. 1878M. E. Herbert Hübner's Ramble ii. xii. 212 In its happy, bucolic isolation.
3. bucolic cæsura, a cæsura after the fourth foot in a dactylic hexameter.
1887G. M. Hopkins Let. 20 Feb. (1938) 130 The ‘bucolic caesura’ (between fourth and fifth foot, pause or no pause in sense). Ibid., The rarity of spondees before the bucolic caesura. 1957Encycl. Brit. XXII. 56/1 A feature in his [sc. Theocritus'] versification..is the so-called bucolic caesura. The rule is that, if there is a pause at the end of the fourth foot, this foot must be a dactyl.
B. n. [cf. L. Būcolica, Gr. βουκολικά in same use.]
1. pl. Pastoral poems: rarely sing. a single poem.
1531Elyot Gov. i. x. (1883) I. 62 What thinge can be more familiar than his [Virgil's] bucolikes. a1560Rolland Crt. Venus iii. 103 His Georgiks and Bucolikis. 1656Blount Glossogr., Bucolicks, pastoral songs, or songs of Heardsmen. 1870Daily News 16 Apr., The manufacture of maple sugar, of which I may sing you a bucolic when the season arrives.
2. = Bucolic poet.
1774T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xxxix. III. 59 Spenser, who is erroneously ranked as our earliest English bucolic.
3. A rustic, peasant. (humorous.)
1862Sat. Rev. No. 351. 72/1 It is a satisfaction to make the personal acquaintance of so worthy a bucolic.
4. pl. Agricultural pursuits. rare.
1865Times 15 Apr., A fancy farm steading..for any special branch of bucolics that may most delight the proprietor. |
