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Gothic

adjective

1.

Characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German.

2.

Of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths.

3.

Of or relating to the Goths.

4.

As if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened. Synonyms: mediaeval, medieval.

5.

Characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque.

noun

1.

Extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas.

2.

A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries. Synonym: black letter.

3.

A style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches. Synonym: Gothic architecture.

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... Cathedral is a history, written in solid stone, of architectural progress, illustrating in itself almost all the various kinds of the style commonly called Pointed. Of these the earliest form of Gothic and Perpendicular chiefly predominate. The shape and arrangement of the building was doubtless largely influenced by the extraordinary number of precious relics which it contained, and which had to be properly displayed and fittingly enshrined. Augustine's church had ...

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... the adverb there precedes the participle, and we evidently have nothing by which to determine the case that follows; as, "These judges were twelve in number. Was this owing to there being twelve primary deities among the Gothic nations?"—Webster's Essays, p. 263. Say rather: "Was this because there were twelve primary deities among the Gothic nations?" "How many are injured by Adam's fall, that know nothing of there ever being such a man in the world!"—Barclay's Apology, ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... the highest order had lent itself wholly or mainly to retrospection. He is the middle point and the culmination of English romanticism. His name is, all in all, the most important on our list. "Towards him all the lines of the romantic revival converge." [2] The popular ballad, the Gothic romance, the Ossianic poetry, the new German literature, the Scandinavian discoveries, these and other scattered rays of influence reach a focus in Scott. It is true that his delineation of feudal society is not ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... of boreal isles, Roar from the hidden, jagged steeps, Where the destroyer never sleeps; Ring through the iceberg's Gothic piles! ...

— Poems • Elizabeth Stoddard

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