NOUN
- a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs
How To Use goliard In A Sentence
- The work, epic in its tendencies, belongs to the category of burlesque compositions in macaronic verse (that is in a jargon, made up of Latin words mingled with Italian words, given a Latin aspect), which had already been inaugurated by Tifi Odasi in his "Macaronea", and which, in a measure, marks a continuance of the goliardic traditions of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- The cause of its decline is traceable partly to the conditions of the time and partly to the character of the goliardic poets. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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- At a later period, when the goliardic songs had become known everywhere, the origin of their title appears to have grown obscure, and thus emerged a Bishop Golias The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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- Sir HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE, goliardic, tarantulated and pontostomatous, invested the character of the great financier with a fluorescent charm. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914
- There even appeared poets as filius or puer or discipulus de familia Goliae, and frequent mention is made of a goliardic order with the titles of abbot, prior, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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- Particularly famous among the poems is the "Confessio Goliae" which was referred to the Archipoeta, and may be regarded as the prototype of the goliardic songs: strophes 12-17 (Meum est propositam in taberna mori) are even today sung as a drinking-song in German student circles. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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