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adjective

aeolic adj.

AEolian, 1; As, the AEolic dialect; the AEolic mode.

(Phys. Geog.) Pertaining to, caused by, or designating, the action of the wind in modifying the earth's surface; as, aeolic erosion; aeolic sand. Same as aeolian 3. (Written also eolic)

noun

Aeolic n.

The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis.

Synonyms: Eolic

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Etymology of 'Aeolic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aeolic" Quotes from Famous Books

... indicates the double or equal summit, is only found in Latin, though unquestionably AEolic; the other two derivations are classic Greek. Parnes, Parnettus, Parnassus. The name of the two mountains ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various

... applied to lyric poetry, because Sappho and Alcaeus were natives of Lesbos in Aeolia, and wrote in the Aeolic dialect ...

— The Illustrated London Reading Book • Various

... colonies were those founded on the western shores of Asia Minor. They were divided into three great masses, each bearing the name of that section of the Greek race with which they claimed affinity. The AEolic cities covered the northern part of this coast, together with the islands of Lesbos and Tenedos; the Ionians occupied the centre, with the islands of Chios and Samos; and the Dorians the southern portion, with the islands of Rhodes and Cos. Most of these colonies ...

— A Smaller History of Greece • William Smith

... find noticed a most ridiculous mistake into which one of the champions of the moderns fell about a passage in the Alcestis of Euripides. Another writer is so inconceivably ignorant as to blame Homer for mixing the four Greek dialects, Doric, Ionic, Aeolic, and Attic, just, says he, as if a French poet were to put Gascon phrases and Picard phrases into the midst of his pure Parisian writing. On the other hand, it is no exaggeration to say that the defenders of the ancients were entirely unacquainted with the greatest productions of ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... winter-storm crashing among the many-tinted crags of Monte Pellegrino,—with the wind raging as it knows how to rage here in sight of the Isles of Aeolus, and the rain dashing on the glass as ruthlessly as it well could have done, if, instead of Aeolic Isles and many-tinted crags, the window had fronted a dearer shore beneath a northern sky, and looked across the grey Firth to the rain-blurred outline ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa