a. [f. the name of the poet Lord Byron; see -IC, and cf. Miltonic.]
1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. Also absol.
1823. Blackw. Mag., XIII. 511. His Byronic muse procured for him the hand of one of our fair countrywomen.
1830. Diary of Nun, II. 35. A Byronic contempt for our fellow creatures.
1856. Chamb. Jrnl., VI. 228. A Byronic youth in a turn-down collar.
1875. Masson, Wordsw., &c. 35. The Byronic in poetry is, in some respects, the contradictory of the Wordsworthian.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, viii. 83. No sentimental passion … no Byronic mock heroics.
2. quasi-sb. pl. [after philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron.
1850. Whipple, Ess. & Rev., II. 394. Vociferating impotent Byronics against conventional morality.
