Augustan

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Augustan \Au*gus"tan\, a. [L. Augustanus, fr. Augustus. See
     {August}, n.]
     1. Of or pertaining to Augustus C[ae]sar or to his times.
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     2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.


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     {Augustan age} of any national literature, the period of its
        highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called
        because the reign of Augustus C[ae]sar was the golden age
        of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b.
        1638) has been called the Augustan age of French
        literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan
        age of English literature.
  
     {Augustan confession} (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of
        Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg,
        by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the
        principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for
        separating from the Roman Catholic church.
        [1913 Webster] Augustine

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Augustan
       adj : relating to or characteristic of the times of the Roman
             emperor Augustus; "the Augustan Age"