Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fountain on Mount Helicon, Greece, sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spring on Mount Helicon in Bœotia, sacred to the muses, the waters of which are poetically held to possess the power of poetic inspiration.
- noun (hip-ō˙-krē′ nē). [NL.] In zoöl.: A genus of gastropod mollusks.
- noun A genus of acalephs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fountain on Mount Helicon in Bœotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As soon as they had eaten their morning meal and drunk some sparkling water from a spring called Hippocrene, Pegasus held out his head of his own accord so that his master might put on the bridle.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Or, perhaps, the bard received inspiration by drinking magic water from the fountain called Hippocrene, or the skaldic mead which dripped from the moon.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904
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As soon as they had eaten their morning meal, and drank some sparkling water from a spring called Hippocrene, Pegasus held out his head, of his own accord, so that his master might put on the bridle.
Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People Various 1880
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As soon as they had eaten their morning meal, and drank some sparkling water from a spring called Hippocrene, Pegasus held out his head, of his own accord, so that his master might put on the bridle.
My First Cruise and Other stories William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The three novels (titled in the Hippocrene Books edition "With Fire & Sword," "The Deluge," and "Fire in the Steppe") detail the troubles in Poland in the mid-17th century when it was beset by a gruesome Cossack rebellion aided by a Tartar invasion, simultaneous invasion by Sweden, Russia and the Cossacks, and then invasion by the Ottomans.
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Shortly after that I coauthored an update for a guidebook to Phoenix, and that same year got a contract with Hippocrene Books to write Byzantium: An Illustrated History.
Terrific Tuesday with Sean McLachlan:) Molly Daniels 2010
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Shortly after that I coauthored an update for a guidebook to Phoenix, and that same year got a contract with Hippocrene Books to write Byzantium: An Illustrated History.
Archive 2010-06-01 Molly Daniels 2010
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For every dreary mention of a proximate erection, impale his private parts with the white-hot needle of a stingray, O Goddesses Divine of the Hippocrene!
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Lord Byron, like all who live, alas, by ink, the Hippocrene water of today, for want of a better.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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A proper schooling in grammar and gymnastic being the foundation for the growth of virtue and character in the young, and knowledge of music, astronomy, and natural philosophy having a moderating effect on the appetitive passions of youth, it is the considered opinion of the servants of the Hippocrene Springs that proper equipment for a physics lab will allow such instruction to take place ...
Orphans of Chaos 2005
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