Isidorian

Is`i`do´ri`an


a. 1. Pertaining, or ascribed, to Isidore; as, the Isidorian decretals, a spurious collection of decretals published in the ninth century.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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In Spain it inaugurated the genre of the lengthy royal biography, breaking away from the traditional Isidorian model of a series of relatively short notices.
(30) Although some medieval works that contained these ideas, such as the De secreta mulierum, remained popular during the Elizabethan period, this did not entail acceptance of the parts of these works that adopted Plinian and Isidorian ideas.
His prophetic verses (Trovas), based on the Isidorian prophecies and the Old Testament, described the coming of O Encoberto, who would establish the Fifth Empire.
For if the idea of birds "naming themselves" is revealed to be a commonplace convention found in many enigmas (not to mention in numerous Isidorian etymologies for the names of birds and other beasts), it no longer stands out as a distinctive clue for identifying a species.
I'm struck in these lines comprising the first two-thirds of Mitchell's poem by her ability to appropriate an "Isidorian" language.
Howe, 'Aldhelm's "Enigmata" and Isidorian Etymology', Anglo-Saxon England, 14 (1985), 51-4.
Meyer, Isidorian "Glossae Collectae" in Aelfric's Vocabulary'.
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