Usage examples (23)

• Why wert thou not present to applaud the only one of thy pupils who understood from that moment the expression, "anacreontic," as applied to a bow?
• With equal acuteness and adaptation to character, he dedicated the poems to the Prince of Wales, an anacreontic hero.
• The word of the yesterday, according to my beloved AWAD, is anacreontic, and it means “celebrating love and drinking.”
• Some days passed before I could rid my thoughts of Thecla of certain impressions belonging to the false Thecla who had initiated me into the anacreontic diversions and...