homeric

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homeric (comparative more homeric, superlative most homeric)

Alternative letter-case form of Homeric.
- 1857 March 16, Ford Madox Brown, “1857 [chapter title]”, in Virginia Surtees, editor, The Diary of Ford Madox Brown (Studies in British Art), New Haven, Conn., London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, published 1981, →ISBN, page 195:
  At home he [John Ruskin] looks young & rompish at the meeting, at Hunts meeting he looked old & ungainly, but his power & eloquence as a speaker were homeric.
- 1963 winter, Gerald Carson, “The Dark Age of American Drinking”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 39, number 1, Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, →OCLC, page 99:
  In San Francisco there was a barroom for every one hundred inhabitants. Here beer and bourbon fought a homeric battle for the hearts and throats of the thin line of patriots who balanced on the city's brass rails and voluntarily gave the national debt a lift.

homeric m or n (feminine singular homerică, masculine plural homerici, feminine and neuter plural homerice)

Declension of homeric