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Thomsonian   Listen
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Thomsonian  adj.  (Med.) Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Thomsonian" Quotes from Famous Books



... summit in South Wales. It is a slight piece of work, careless and even slovenly in execution, but with an ease and lightness of touch that contrast pleasantly with Thomson's and Akenside's ponderosity. When Dyer wrote blank verse he slipped into the Thomsonian diction, "cumbent sheep" and "purple groves pomaceous." But in "Grongar Hill"—although he does call the sun Phoebus—the shorter measure seems to bring shorter words, and he has lines ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers



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