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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ode

Ode (ōd), n. [F., fr. L. ode, oda, Gr. ᾠδή a song, especially a lyric song, contr. fr. ἀοιδή, fr. ἀείδειν to sing; cf.Skr. vad to speak, sing. Cf. Comedy, Melody, Monody.] A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.

Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak.

O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.

Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; — used contemptuously.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.