Part 393

Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more absurd, and undeed romantic, than such a persuasion?

South.

Zeal for the good of one's country a party of men have represented as chimerical and romantic.

Addison.

2. Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.

3. Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.

4. Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

Syn. -- Sentimental; fanciful; fantastic; fictitious; extravagant; wild; chimerical. See Sentimental.

The romantic drama. See under Drama.

Ro*man"tic*al (?), a. Romantic.

Ro*man"tic*al*y, adv. In a romantic manner.

Ro*man"ti*cism (?), n. [CF. It. romanticismo, F. romantisme, romanticisme.] A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi&?;val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.

He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the founder of romanticism.

Lowell.

Ro*man"ti*cist (?), n. One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.

Ro*man"tic*ly (?), adv. Romantically. [R.] Strype.

Ro*man"tic*ness (?), n. The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.

Rom"a*ny (?), n. [Gypsy romano, romani, adj., gypsy; cf. rom husband.] 1. A gypsy.

2. The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies. [Written also Rommany.]

||Ro*man"za (?), n. [It.] See Romance, 5.

Ro*maunt" (?), n. [See Romance.] A romantic story in verse; as, the "Romaunt of the Rose."

O, hearken, loving hearts and bold, Unto my wild romaunt.

Mrs. Browning.

Rom"ble (?), v.& n. Rumble. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Rom*bow"line (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear. [Written also rumbowline.]

{ Ro"me*ine (?), Ro"me*ite (?), } n. [F. roméine. So calledafter the French mineralogist Romé L'Isle.] (Min.) A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. It is an antimonate of calcium.

Rome"kin (?), n. [CF. Rummer.] A drinking cup. [Written also romkin.] [Obs.] Halliwell.

{ Rome" pen`ny (?), or Rome" scot` (?) }. See Peter pence, under Peter.