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Poem by Theocritus
Idyll IX, also titled Βουκολιασταί γʹ ('The Third Country Singing-Match'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. Daphnis and Menalcas
Idyll_IX
Bucolic poem by Theocritus
Idyll I, sometimes called Θύρσις ('Thyrsis'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus which takes the form of a dialogue between
Idyll_I
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll X, sometimes called Θερισταί ('The Reapers') or Εργατίναι ('The Labourers'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The
Idyll_X
Idyll XI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared
Idyll_XI
Poem
Idyll II, also called Φαρμακεύτριαι ('The Sorceresses'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, usually categorised with Idylls XIV and
Idyll_II
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXVI, also titled Λῆναι ('The Bacchanals') or Βάκχαι ('The Bacchantes'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet
Idyll_XXVI
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll III, also called Κώμος ('The Serenade'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poet appears to personate a young goatherd
Idyll_III
Theocritus. Some critics take the poem to be a patchwork by various hands. Idyll VI Idyll IX Edmonds, ed. 1919, p. 109. Lang, ed. 1880, p. 44. Attribution: This
Idyll_VIII
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll VII, also called θαλύσια ('Harvest Home'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The dramatic persona, a poet, making his
Idyll_VII
Bucolic poem by Theocritus
Idyll IV, also titled Νομεῖς ('The Herdsmen'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem is a conversation between a goatherd
Idyll_IV
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XVIII, also titled Ἑλένης Ἐπιθάλαμιος ('The Epithalamy of Helen'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem includes a re-creation
Idyll_XVIII
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll V, sometimes called Αιπολικόν και Ποιμενικόν ('The Goatherd and the Shepherd'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This
Idyll_V
Ancient greek poem
Idyll XVII, also titled Εγκώμιον εις Πτολεμαίον ('The Panegyric of Ptolemy'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem is a panegyric
Idyll_XVII
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll XXIV, also called Ἡρακλίσκος (Heracliscus; 'The Little Heracles'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This poem describes the
Idyll_XXIV
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll XIII, sometimes called Ύλας ('Hylas'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. As in Idyll XI, Nicias is again addressed
Idyll_XIII
Poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXI, also called Ἁλιεῖς ('The Fisherman'), is a poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. After some verses addressed
Idyll_XXI
Mime by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus
Idyll XV, also called "The Women at the Adonis-Festival" in English, is a mime by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. This idyll describes the visit
Idyll_XV
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll VI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 6, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. The exact date of its composition is unknown. It references
Idyll_VI
Idyll XII, sometimes called Ἀίτης ('The Beloved' or 'The Passionate Friend'), is a bucolic poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. Andrew Lang
Idyll_XII
Poem by Theocritus
Idyll XXII, also called Διόσκουροι ('The Dioscuri'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. It is a hymn, in the Homeric manner, to Castor
Idyll_XXII
Ancient greek poem
Idyll XVI, also called Χάριτες ('The Charities') or Ἱέρων ('Hiero'), is a poem by the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. In it the poet bewails the
Idyll_XVI
Idyll XIV, also called Κυνίσκας Ἔρως ('The Love of Cynisca') or Θυώνιχος ('Thyonichus'), is an 'urban mime' by the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus
Idyll_XIV
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXVII, also titled Οαριστύς ('The Lovers' Talk'), is a bucolic poem traditionally attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus, but probably
Idyll_XXVII
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXV, later titled Ηρακλής Λεοντοφόνος ('Heracles the Lion-slayer') by Callierges, is a poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet
Idyll_XXV
Poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XX, also called Βουκολίσκος ('The Young Countryman'), is a bucolic poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd century BC Greek poet Theocritus. A neatherd
Idyll_XX
Greek poem attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XIX, also titled Κηριοκλέπτης ('The Honey-Stealer'), is a poem doubtfully ascribed to the third-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. Eros complains
Idyll_XIX
Poem doubtfully attributed to Theocritus
Idyll XXIII, also called Εραστής ('The Lover'), is a poem doubtfully attributed to the 3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. It tells how a lover hanged
Idyll_XXIII
Poem by Virgil
other Theocritus idylls are loosely translated, such as Idyll 3 (lines 23–25), Idyll 11 (lines 38–43), Idyll 14 (line 54) and Idyll 2 (lines 57–58). As
Eclogue_9
1943 semi-autobiographical novel by Wallace Stegner
of the book is told from the perspective of Bruce. The family spends an idyllic summer at their homestead. Also, Bruce begins to regain memories of the
The Big Rock Candy Mountain (novel)
The_Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain_(novel)
in 1783. The poem contrasts the traditional representation of the rural idyll in Augustan poetry with the realities of village life. In early 1781 Crabbe
The_Village_(poem)
King of Syracuse (r. c. 271 – 216)
of the prosperity of Syracuse during his rule is given in the sixteenth idyll of Theocritus. During the reign of Hieron II, various forms of architectural
Hiero_II_of_Syracuse
River at the foot of Mount Etna, destroyed by eruptions
Anth. Lat. 1.148; Serv. ad Virg. Eel. ix. 39, who erroneously writes the name Acinius. Ἄκιδος ἱερὸν ὕδωρ, Idyll. 1.69. Solin. 5.17 This article incorporates
Jaci_(river)
Swedish artist (1862–1944)
their manor, "Hanmora", on the island of Adelsö on Lake Mälaren. In these idyllic surroundings, she came into contact with nature at an early age. Her experience
Hilma_af_Klint
Father of Ptolemy I Soter
Alexandri Magni, ix. 8; Suda, s.v. "Lagos" Plutarch, Moralia, "Concerning the Cure of Anger. A Dialogue", 9 (42 MB PDF) Theocritus, Idylls, xvii. 7 Scholia
Lagus
and Mr. Chernov" ("Дяденька Жданов и кавалер Чернов") (1854, pub. 1932) "Idyll" [de; it] ("Идиллия") (1861–1862, pub. 1911) "Tikhon and Melanya" (1862)
Leo_Tolstoy_bibliography
Most beautiful woman in Greek mythology
Propertius, Elegies, 3.14. Translated in English by A.S. Kline. Theocritus, Idylls, XVIII (The Epithalamium of Helen). Translated in English by J. M. Edmonds
Helen_of_Troy
French artist (fl. c. 1175 or c. 1212)
a rhyme scheme of ab' ab' b' aab'. A chantar uses some of the motifs of Idyll II of Theocritus. She is the subject of a series of historical novels by
Comtessa_de_Dia
Greek mythical character
herdsman loved by a goddess and punished by her: see Theocritus' First Idyll. In Greek Mythology, Actaeon is widely thought to symbolize ritual human
Actaeon
Retrieved 2025-08-04. "When Star Wars went to the Maldives - and brought its idyllic beaches back to Britain". RadioTimes. Retrieved 24 April 2017. Osbourne
List of Star Wars filming locations
List_of_Star_Wars_filming_locations
ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1. Liner notes from A Mass of Life & Prelude and Idyll Naxos 8.572861-62 imlsp.com, 7 Danish Songs (Delius, Frederick), retrieved
List of compositions by Frederick Delius
List_of_compositions_by_Frederick_Delius
Genus of flowering plants
Vol. IX RH-ST. New York: Harper & Brothers. Retrieved 8 October 2014. Zimmerman, Clayton (1994). The pastoral Narcissus: a study of the first idyll of Theocritus
Narcissus_(plant)
English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
self-directed private study. Hill argues that this was not retreating into a rural idyll; Hammersmith was then a "suburban village" falling into the orbit of London
John_Milton
King Arthur and order of chivalry in Arthurian romance
Geoffroy de Maience. Malory, Morte Darthur Book IX, Chap. xiii Fresco ed. & Donager tr. (1992), pp. ix, x–xi; Le bel inconnu, vv. 7374, 5921-2/ Krueger
Knights_of_the_Round_Table
Town and polis (city-state) of Magnesia in ancient Thessaly
Press. pp. 718-719. ISBN 0-19-814099-1. Eurip. Here. Fur. 371; Theocr. Idyll. 7.104; Virgil. Aeneid. Vol. 7.675. Pausanias (1918). "8.6". Description
Homolium
Divine hero in Greek mythology
the Bisexual Demigod". Advocate. Retrieved 6 February 2021. Theocritus, Idyll 13; Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 1.1177–1357. Bernard, Sergent (1986)
Heracles
Elegiac poem written by John Milton
later occurs in Theocritus's Idylls, where Lycidas is most prominently a poet-goatherd encountered on the trip of "Idyll vii." The name appears several
Lycidas
1880 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
world of the Inquisitor's reasoning is juxtaposed with the radiant, idyllically stylized communications of the dying Elder and Alyosha's renderings of
The_Brothers_Karamazov
Christian states in the Levant, 1098–1291
of the laws and acted on them more surely before the land was lost.' An idyllic view of the early 12th century legal system was created. The barons reinterpreted
Crusader_states
Thought and poetics of Alessandro Manzoni
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the idyll. Manzoni's writing denies any idyllic interpretation; it is not meant to be a search for serene
Alessandro Manzoni's thought and poetics
Alessandro_Manzoni's_thought_and_poetics
1932 short story cycle by John Steinbeck
Maltby") Chapter VII ("The Lopez Sisters") Chapter VIII ("Molly Morgan") Chapter IX ("Raymond Banks") Chapter X ("Pat Humbert") Chapter XI ("The Whitesides")
The_Pastures_of_Heaven
Xinjiang as harmonious and peaceful. The Wings of Songs portrays "a rural idyll of ethnic cohesion devoid of repression, mass surveillance" and without
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
German novelist (1875–1955)
(Luthers Hochzeit) (fragment – unfinished) 1919: The Song of the Child: An Idyll (Gesang vom Kindchen) 1923: Tristan and Isolde 1915: "Frederick and the
Thomas_Mann
American writer (1880–1946)
public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure". The musical additionally borrows
Damon_Runyon
American writer, son of Ernest Hemingway
E. (May 10, 1979). Herringbone Cloak – GI Dagger: Marines of the OSS Ch. IX, note 16. Marine Corps Command and Staff College. Accessed February 15, 2013
Jack_Hemingway
Poetry collection by Victor Hugo
paternité) XVI. La Comète XVII. Changement d'horizon XVIII. Le Groupe des Idylles XIX. Tout le passé et tout l'avenir XX. Un poëte est un monde XXI. Le Temps
La_Légende_des_siècles
Painting by Paul Gauguin
frequent occurrence in ancient prayers and folklore. In his account of their idyll together, Gauguin described how in the evenings Teha'amana would recount
Merahi_metua_no_Tehamana
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712–1778)
epistolary novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse (also based on memories of his idyllic youthful relationship with Mme de Warens). Sophie was the cousin and houseguest
Jean-Jacques_Rousseau
Cycle of Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali yugas (ages) in Hindu cosmology
forces that rule the Kali yuga and ushering in an immediate return to the idyllic Krita yuga. Gupta, S. V. (2010). "Ch. 1.2.4 Time Measurements". In Hull
Yuga_cycle
Empress of Mexico from 1864 to 1867
these days is a limitless madness". In correspondence Charlotte painted an idyllic portrait of this time in Miramare, though the estrangement of the two spouses
Charlotte_of_Belgium
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
a more subdued palette of yellows and blues, which creates a sense of idyllic harmony. About 10 July 1890, Van Gogh wrote to Theo of "vast fields of
Vincent_van_Gogh
German writer and polymath (1749–1832)
Journeyman Years (the continuation of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship), the idyll of Hermann and Dorothea, the Roman Elegies and the verse drama The Natural
Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)
Souvenir d'Italie, Bacchus and Love, Drunk in 1851; Paestum in 1852; and An Idyll in 1853. In 1852, Gérôme received a commission to paint a large mural of
Jean-Léon_Gérôme
Term for the Early Middle Ages
the Middle Ages, which for the following generation began to take on the idyllic image of an "Age of Faith". This, reacting to a world dominated by Enlightenment
Dark_Ages_(historiography)
Queen of Denmark (1808–39) and Norway (1808–14)
describe her childhood as happy, and often expressed that she missed the idyll of her childhood home and longed to visit it. After crown prince Frederick
Marie_of_Hesse-Kassel
Early novella by French author François-René de Chateaubriand
French author François-René de Chateaubriand, first published on 12 germinal IX (2 April 1801). The story is told from the point of view of the 73-year-old
Atala_(novella)
Dravidian ethnic group
consisting of the Ettuttokai ("Eight Anthologies") and the Pattuppattu ("Ten Idylls"), and the Patinenkilkanakku ("Eighteen Lesser Texts"). The Tamil literature
Tamils
German playwright and poet (1898–1956)
Salonnière". Harper's Magazine. Ross, Alex (9 March 2020). "Exodus: The Haunted Idyll of Exiled German Novelists in Wartime Los Angeles". The New Yorker. pp. 38–43
Bertolt_Brecht
Sub-Roman Welsh poet
century. It is elaborated upon in modern English poetry, such as Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Charles Williams' Taliessin Through Logres. But the historical
Taliesin
Town in Bavaria, Germany
beer and music festival (Annafest) which takes place in late July in an idyllic wooded hillside, home to 24 beer gardens, on the outskirts of the town
Forchheim
hypocritical and vapid social contexts, they examine their counterforce, the lost idyll. Salinger’s most sympathetic characters find themselves in lonely exile
The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J. D. Salinger, Vol. 1 & 2
The_Complete_Uncollected_Short_Stories_of_J._D._Salinger,_Vol._1_&_2
Greek doctor and poet (4th–3rd century BC)
physician, poet and epigrammatist from Miletus. A confidant of Theocritus (see Idylls 11, 13 and 28), he devoted himself to poetry and eight epigrams ascribed
Nicias_of_Miletus
Hungarian pianist and composer (1849–1924)
Pianists, p. 252 Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed., 1954, Vol. IX, p.414 "Opera Composers: Z". opera.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-06-25. "Ötven
Géza_Zichy
City in Sicily, Italy
Lucil. Aetn. 602-40 Claudian. Idyll. 7 Silius Italicus xiv. 196 Auson. Ordo Nob. Urb. 11. Aristotle, Pol. ii. 9. Diog. Laert. ix. 2. § 1. Athen. i. p. 22,
Catania
Sexual orientation to men/masculinity or women/femininity
androgen receptors. A version of the term appeared in Ancient Greek. In Idyll 8, line 60, Theocritus uses gynaikophilias (γυναικοφίλιας) as a euphemistic
Androphilia_and_gynephilia
Legendary creature
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, "such comic and idyllic stories" began to grow increasingly rare after the 1960s, due to demand
Dragon
"Iaso (1)", in Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band IX, Halbband 1, edited by Wilhelm Kroll, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1914. Wikisource
List_of_Greek_deities
Ancient Greek god of the wilds, shepherds, and flocks
Collins English Dictionary. Edwin L. Brown, "The Lycidas of Theocritus Idyll 7", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 1981:59–100. Schmitz, Leonhard
Pan_(god)
Conjecturally, the love potion described by Theocritus (3rd century BC), Idyll 2.58 as requiring ground up lizard may also refer to the salamander, according
Salamanders_in_folklore
Greek god and personification of the Sun
Paradox, and Reflexivity p. 393 Theocritus, Idylls 28 Heracles the Lion-Slayer 28.129-130 Theocritus, Idylls 28 Heracles the Lion-Slayer 28.118–121 Conon
Helios
First of four yugas (ages) in Hindu cosmology
forces that rule the Kali yuga and ushering in an immediate return to the idyllic Krita yuga. Gupta, S. V. (2010). "Ch. 1.2.4 Time Measurements". In Hull
Satya_Yuga
Festival marking the beginning of summer
"Hayfield May Queen Festival back for its 97th year". Buxton Advertiser. Idylls of the King : Guinevere, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1859 "May Day Traditions"
May_Day
British naturalist and writer (1925–1995)
Botting (1999), p. 598. Shute, Joe (12 March 2021). "My Fight to Save an Idyllic Corfu Paradise from Developers". The Telegraph.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint:
Gerald_Durrell
1485 reworking of existing tales about King Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Victorian poet Alfred Tennyson retold the legends in the poetry volume Idylls of the King (1859 and 1885). His work focuses on Le Morte d'Arthur and the
Le_Morte_d'Arthur
Adam and Eve's loss of innocence in the Abrahamic religions
beginning of agriculture. With that transition, humans no longer dwelled idyllically in a parkland, feeding on wild fruits or animals, but had begun the toilsome
Fall_of_man
Mystery religion in the Roman Empire
creator and father of all, a cave in the mountains bordering Persia", an idyllic setting "abounding in flowers and springs of water"."(Porphyry, On the
Mithraism
Ancient Greek god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses
(4); Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.517. Larson, p. 173; Scholia on Theocritus, Idylls 7.76. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.4. Smith, s.v. Taras; Pausanias, 10.10.8. Homer
Poseidon
Stock character
savage state, Rousseau's account, even of this third stage, is far less idyllic; and it is so because of his fundamentally unfavorable view of human nature
Noble_savage
in 2000, when the Holocaust survivor Mendi Rodan conducted the Siegfried Idyll in Rishon LeZion, and in August 2001 when a concert conducted by Barenboim
Controversies surrounding Richard Wagner
Controversies_surrounding_Richard_Wagner
National park in Washington, United States
multi-day trips, with the entire day spent walking along the beach. Although idyllic compared to toiling up a mountainside (Seven Lakes Basin is a notable example)
Olympic_National_Park
Scottish novelist (1771–1832)
eyes that she might the better fancy herself one of that heroic ring. The idyllic Cape Cod retreat of suffragists Verena Tarrant and Olive Chancellor in
Walter_Scott
God in Greek mythology
p. 145; Clayton Zimmerman, The Pastoral Narcissus: A Study of the First Idyll of Theocritus (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), p. 2. Sophocles, Oedipus at
Pluto_(mythology)
Italian composer (1567–1643)
the earliest examples of an operatic leitmotif. Act 1 presents a pastoral idyll, the buoyant mood of which continues into Act 2. The confusion and grief
Claudio_Monteverdi
Slate Island in the Firth of Lorn, Scotland
Retrieved 8 December 2008. Paul Kelbie (23 May 2005). "Storm brews over island idyll as council plans to build bridge". The Independent. Archived from the original
Easdale
Dutch poet and art critic
exceedingly brilliant mock-heroic poem in hexameters. His last poem was Nanno, an idyll on the Greek model. Vosmaer died in Montreux, Switzerland, on 12 June 1888
Carel_Vosmaer
Guyanese novelist (1909–1965)
com. Retrieved 25 April 2024. Pointer, Jacqueline (25 April 2024). "The Idyll - And The Warrior (Recollections of Edgar Mittelholzer)" (Afterword). In
Edgar_Mittelholzer
Austrian composer and conductor (1883–1945)
Preglhof" and in the tone poem Im Sommerwind (1904), both after Bruno Wille's idyll. In Webern's Sommerwind, Derrick Puffett found affinities with Strauss's
Anton_Webern
1955 film
crew for meeting a difficult resupply schedule. When the ship reaches an idyllic South Pacific island, however, Morton cancels the crew's shore leave. In
Mister_Roberts_(1955_film)
Faulkner (1982), pp. ix, 1, 29. Faulkner (1982), pp. xiv, xxv, 1. Hayhoe (1978), p. 410. Hayhoe (1978), p. 411. Faulkner (1982), pp. ix, 545. Hayhoe (1978)
William_Faulkner_bibliography
Serpents Unleashed Skeletonwitch 2014 Crystalline Hark Prayer for Terrene Idylls Oblation Floor Blissfucker Trap Them From Parts Unknown Every Time I Die
Kurt Ballou production discography
Kurt_Ballou_production_discography
an infant and was raised under an ordinary human identity in a small, idyllic farming community. Comics and adapted media that portray Superman's origin
List_of_fictional_settlements
IDYLL IX
IDYLL IX
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Idle.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish personal name Idl, a pet form of Jude.Possibly a respelling of German Eitel.
Female
English
English name derived from the vocabulary word fay, from Old English faie, FAY means "fairy." This name was in use in the 19th century when an interest in medieval times and Arthurian legends--brought about mostly by Tennyson's Idylls of the King--led to the use of such names as Fay and Morgan, Percival, and Tristan.Â
Girl/Female
American, British, English, German
Prosperous; Happy; Hardworking
Boy/Male
Greek
Strong gift.
Boy/Male
Greek
Father of the centaurs.
Boy/Male
Basque Hebrew
Laughs.
Male
Egyptian
, the surname of Rameses IX.
IDYLL IX
IDYLL IX
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Eye-sight; Wisdom; Sight
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Nelms.
Girl/Female
Indian
Happy
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Competition
Girl/Female
French, Indian, Spanish
The Name of Goddess Saraswati
Female
Italian
Feminine form of Italian Adone, ADONA means "my lord."
Boy/Male
Indian
Immortal personality (God)
Boy/Male
Norse
A mythical dragon.
Boy/Male
Tamil
Incarnate, Holy incarnation
Girl/Female
Indian, Kashmiri
Flowers
IDYLL IX
IDYLL IX
IDYLL IX
IDYLL IX
IDYLL IX
n.
A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
n.
The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.
n.
A tick of the genus Ixodes, or the family Ixodidae.
n.
A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers.
n.
A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.
n.
A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See Tick, the insect.
n.
A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.
n.
A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
n.
A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber.
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (Iridaceae), which includes the genera Iris, Ixia, Crocus, Gladiolus, and many others.
n.
Alt. of Ixtli
a.
Of or belonging to idyls.
n.
A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.
n.
Same as Ixtle.
a.
The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.