bucnemia (buknemia)

[NL., "Hylas," the celebrated thirteenth idyl of Theocritus, is not a bucolic poem, but cla ified as narrative Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 211. semi-epic in character, yet exhibits many touches of the bucolic sweetne . 2. Agricultural: used humorously or in disparagement. - Bucolic cesura, bucolic dieresis. See cesura. Syn. Pastoral, Rustic, etc. See rural. II. n. [ bucolicum , pl. bucolic a , neut. of bucolic us: see I.] 1. A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, or the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds: as, the bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. The first modern Latin bucolics are those of Petrarch. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, § 28. 2. A writer of pastorals. [Rare.] Spenser is erroneously ranked as our earliest English T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, § 40. bucolic. 3. A countryman; a farmer: used humorously or in depreciation. bucolical (bū-kol'i-kal), a. Same as bucolic. Bucorvus (bū-kôr'vus), n. [NL.,