[Par.nas.si.an] adj (ca. 1644) 1 [L parnassius of Parnassus, fr. Gk parnasios, fr. Parnasos Parnassus, mountain in Greece sacred to Apollo and the Muses]: of or relating to poetry
2. [F parnassien, fr. Parnasse Parnassus; fr. Le Parnasse contemporain (1866), an anthology of poetry]: of or relating to a school of French poets of the second half of the 19th century emphasizing metrical form rather than emotion -- Parnassian n