Os|si|an|ic

Os|si|an|ic «_OSH ee AN ihk, _OS-», adjective.

1. of or having to do with the style of poetry or rhythmic prose used by James Macpherson in Poems of Ossian (1762) and Temora (1763), purporting to be translations of works by Ossian.

2. grandiloquent; bombastic.

3. of or having to do with Ossian, a legendary Gaelic poet and hero of the 200's _A.D.