homeric

Adjective

homeric (comparative more homeric, superlative most homeric)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Homeric.
   • 1857 March 16, Ford Madox Brown, “1857 [chapter title]”, in Virginia Surtees, editor, The Diary of Ford Madox Brown (Studies in British Art), New Haven, Conn.; London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, published 1981, →ISBN, page 195:

     At home he [John Ruskin] looks young & rompish at the meeting, at Hunts meeting he looked old & ungainly, but his power & eloquence as a speaker were homeric.

   • 1963 winter, Gerald Carson, “The Dark Age of American Drinking”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 39, number 1, Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, OCLC 83940592, page 99:

     In San Francisco there was a barroom for every one hundred inhabitants. Here beer and bourbon fought a homeric battle for the hearts and throats of the thin line of patriots who balanced on the city's brass rails and voluntarily gave the national debt a lift.