/os'ee an"ik, osh'ee-/ , adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Ossian, the poetry attributed to him, or the rhythmic prose published by James Macpherson in 1762-63, purporting to be a translation from the Scots Gaelic.
2. grandiloquent; bombastic.
[ 1800-10; OSSIAN + -IC ]