Word Meanings - AUGUSTAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to Augustus Cæsar or to his times. 2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of

Additional info about word: AUGUSTAN

1. Of or pertaining to Augustus Cæsar or to his times. 2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne the Augustan age of English literature. -- Augustan confession , or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AUGUSTAN)

• Classical
• Pure
• refined
• elegant
• polished
• chaste
• augustan

Related words: (words related to AUGUSTAN)

• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• CHASTEN
  chastise; castus pure + agere to lead, drive. See Chaste, Act, and 1. To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.
• REFIND
  To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.
• AUGUSTAN
  1. Of or pertaining to Augustus Cæsar or to his times. 2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of
• REFINER
  One who, or that which, refines.
• CLASSICALITY; CLASSICALNESS
  The quality of being classical.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• CHASTENER
  One who chastens.
• CHASTELY
  In a chaste manner; with purity.
• CLASSICALLY
  1. In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors. 2. In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
• REFINE
  1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring
• CLASSICALISM
  1. A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism. 2. Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.
• POLISH
  Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
• CHASTENESS
  Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaundy, or affected; as, chasteness of design. (more info) 1. Chastity; purity.
• POLISHER
  One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. Addison.
• POLISHING
  a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. A kind of hone
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• PREFINITE
  Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• OVERELEGANT
  Too elegant. Johnson.
• DEPOLISH
  To remove the polish or glaze from.
• OVERPOLISH
  To polish too much.
• EXPOLISH
  To polish thoroughly. Heywood.
• OVERREFINE
  To refine too much.