bardish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bardish (comparative more bardish, superlative most bardish)
- Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.
- 1612 May 9, [John Selden], “From the Author of the Illustrations”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC:
- I found ſo intollerable Antichroniſmes, incredible reports, and Bardiſh impoſtures, as vvell from Ignorance as aſſum'd liberty of Inuention in ſome of our Ancients; […]
References
[edit]- “bardish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.