typic

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It leads, for instance, to the fastidious exclusion of particulars, whether in phrases, objects, or traits of character, and substitutes for them the general, the vague, the typic.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century by Morley, John

Wondrous change! by arts' transformance, At the typic heavenly feast; Each who chose a wing a bird was, Each who chose a claw, a beast.

From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

In Avebury, as it was, can be found the early typic model of which Stonehenge is the final product.

From Stonehenge Today and Yesterday by Sumner, Heywood

Victor Hugo has given to this typic historical struggle of '93 the qualities of nobleness and beauty which art requires in dealing with real themes.

From Studies in Literature by Morley, John

It is certain, however, that the ash was the typic tree of all life, since the next verse of the Voluspa is devoted to Yggdrasil, the tree of existence, or of the world itself.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey