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that Spenser was half-bullied into re-writing the "Fairy Queen" in hexameters, had not Raleigh, a true romanticist, persuaded him to follow his better genius. Kingsley, Westward Ho, ix. Julian was a romanticist in wishing to restore the Greek religion and its spirit, when mankind had entered on the new development. George Eliot , in Cro , I. iii. Hugo had already, in the preface to the "Odes et Bal. lades," planted the flag of the romanticists . Edinburgh Rev. , CLXIII. 128. rom anticly (rō-manʼtik-li), adv . Romantically. [Rare.] Cranmer. He tells us roman tickly on the same argument, that many posts went to and fro, between Peter Martyr and Strype , Cranmer, iii. 38. romantic ne (rō-mantik-nes), n. The state or character of being romantic. Having heard me often praise the romantic ne of the place, she was astonished that I should set myself against going to a house so much in my taste. Richardson, Clari a Harlowe, I. liii. Romany, Rommany (rom'a-ni), n. and a. [ Romani , Gipsy; cf. rom , man, husband: see Rom.] I. n.; pl. Romanies , Rom manies (-niz). 1. A Gipsy. Very nice, deep, old-fashioned Romanies they are. C. G. Leland, The Century, XXV. 905. 2. The language spoken by the Gipsies. Origi. nally a dialect brought from India and allied to the Hindu stan i, it has been much corrupted by the tongues of the peoples among whom the Gipsies have sojourned. The corrupt broken dialect now used by British Gipsies is called by them posh -romany or romanes; the purer, "deep" romanes . See Gipsy . "We were talking of languages, Jasper.... Yours must be a rum one?" "'Tis called Rommany ." G. Borrow , Lavengro, xvii.