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

  Gothic \Goth"ic\, a. [L. Gothicus: cf. F. gothique.]
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     1. Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude;
        barbarous.
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     2. (Arch.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with
        pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion
        to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in
        proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western
        Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of
        {Abacus}, and {Capital}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gothic \Goth"ic\, n.
     1. The language of the Goths; especially, the language of
        that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the
        4th century. See {Goth}.
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     Note: Bishop Ulfilas or Walfila translated most of the Bible
           into Gothic about the Middle of the 4th century. The
           portion of this translaton which is preserved is the
           oldest known literary document in any Teutonic
           language.
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     2. A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
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     Note: This is Nonpareil GOTHIC.
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     3. (Arch.) The style described in {Gothic}, a., 2.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pointed \Point"ed\, a.
     1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
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     2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of
        expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a
        particular person or thing.
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              His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. --Pope.
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     {Pointed arch} (Arch.), an arch with a pointed crown.
  
     {Pointed style} (Arch.), a name given to that style of
        architecture in which the pointed arch is the predominant
        feature; -- more commonly called {Gothic}.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Point"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Point"ed*ness},
        n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Moesogothic \Moe`so*goth"ic\, n.
     The language of the Moesogoths; -- also called {Gothic}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Gothic
       adj 1: characteristic of the style of type commonly used for
              printing German
       2: of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; "the
          Gothic Bible translation"
       3: of or relating to the Goths; "Gothic migrations"
       4: as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and
          unenlightened; "a medieval attitude toward dating" [syn: {medieval},
           {mediaeval}]
       5: characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque;
          "gothic novels like `Frankenstein'"
       n 1: extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the
            only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century
            translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
       2: a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries [syn: {black
          letter}]
       3: a style of architecture developed in northern France that
          spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th
          centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and
          counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed
          arches [syn: {Gothic architecture}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "Gothic":
     Neanderthal, Philistine, Victorian, animal, antediluvian,
     antiquated, antique, archaic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous,
     baroque, bestial, bizarre, bookless, brain-born, brutal, brutish,
     classical, coarse, crude, deceived, dream-built, extravagant,
     fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque,
     fantastic, florid, fossil, fossilized, functionally illiterate,
     grammarless, grotesque, grown old, heathen, hoodwinked, ill-bred,
     ill-educated, illiterate, impolite, led astray, lowbrow, maggoty,
     medieval, mid-Victorian, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught,
     noncivilized, nonintellectual, notional, of other times, old-world,
     outlandish, pagan, petrified, preposterous, primitive, rococo,
     rough-and-ready, rude, savage, superannuated, troglodytic,
     unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncivil,
     uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured,
     unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed,
     unintellectual, unkempt, unlearned, unlettered, unlicked,
     unliterary, unpolished, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled,
     unstudious, untamed, untaught, untutored, whimsical, wild
  
  

















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