HORACE

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• HORACE (noun)
  The noun HORACE has 1 sense:

1. Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)

  Familiarity information: HORACE used as a noun is very rare.

• HORACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

“The mama,” said Traddles—“Reverend Horace Crewler—when I mentioned it with every possible precaution to Mrs. Crewler, the effect upon her was such that she gave a scream and became insensible.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was introduced to us as the owner of the house—Mr. Horace Harker, of the Central Press Syndicate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Foenum habet in cornu, as Don Horace has it; but I warrant him harmless for all that.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old Persian saying, ‘There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.’ There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much knowledge of the world.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is as well just to have a tag or two of Horace or Virgil: ‘sub tegmine fagi,’ or ‘habet fœnum in cornu,’ which gives a flavour to one’s conversation like the touch of garlic in a salad.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I am sure that it will interest Mr. Horace Harker and the subscribers of the Central Press Syndicate.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But I am afraid I am wandering from the subject. Did I mention the Reverend Horace?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If it come to Horace, I have a line in my mind: Loquaces si sapiat—How doth it run?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A news-bill at the entrance announced “Kensington Outrage. Murder by a Madman,” and the contents of the paper showed that Mr. Horace Harker had got his account into print after all.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Lord bless me, yes!” said Traddles—“by the Reverend Horace—to Sophy—down in Devonshire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)