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augustan

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Adjective, Noun
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Au=gus=tan
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1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

augustana. [L. Augustanus, fr. Augustus. See August, n.].
  •  Of or pertaining to Augustus Cæsar or to his times.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.  [1913 Webster]
Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature. -- Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

augustan, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 connected with, occurring during, or influenced by the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus, esp. as an outstanding period of Latin literature.
2 (of a nation's literature) refined and classical in style (in England of the literature of the 17th-18th c.).
--n. a writer of the Augustan age of any literature.

Etymology
L Augustanus f. Augustus

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