Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of bards; bardic principles or methods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.
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- noun The system of
bards ; the learning and maxims of bards.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“I suppose you follow some pursuit besides bardism?” said I; “I suppose you farm?”
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“Sure,” said I, “inn-keeping and bardism are not very cognate pursuits?”
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What a triumph for Wales; what a triumph for bardism, if Lleiaf had ever written an englyn, or couplet, in which not a bridge for common traffic, but a railroad bridge over the Menai was hinted at, and steam travelling distinctly foretold!
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Thanks to this toleration bardism lasted into the heart of the Middle Ages, under the form of a secret doctrine, with a conventional language, and symbols almost wholly borrowed from the solar divinity of Arthur.
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The opposition between bardism and Christianity reveals itself in the pieces translated by M. de la Villemarqué by many features of original and pathetic interest.
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The opposition between bardism and Christianity reveals itself in the pieces translated by M. de la Villemarque by many features of original and pathetic interest.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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Thanks to this toleration bardism lasted into the heart of the
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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Well, though Lleiaf did not write it, there exists in the Welsh language an englyn, almost as old as Lleiaf’s time, in which steam travelling in Wales and Anglesea is foretold, and in which, though the railroad bridge over the Menai is not exactly mentioned, it may be considered to be included; so that Wales and bardism have equal reason to be proud.
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In conclusion, I beg leave to say that the people could not be very barbarous, who were in the habit of hearing such precepts as "the three ultimate objects of bardism -- to reform _manners_ and
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 Various
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