d30e4508 1700 Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. ii. i, How great a good by me sincerely offer'd Thy dull Romantick Honour has refus'd.
d30e4503 1854 Trench Synon. (ed. 2) 66 A romantic scheme is one which is wild, impracticable, and yet contains something which captivates the fancy.
d30e4502 1800 Mrs. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 67 It is his intention equally to share his future inheritance with his brother. A most romantic idea.
d30e4500 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade 170 What is here represented, will be treated by some of our Planters, as Romantick.
d30e4499 1671 Sir W. Thompson in Feret Fulham (1900) I. 50 The romantic and visionary scheme of building a bridge over the river at Putney.
d30e4494 1711 G. Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847) I. 214 He must give them priests without human infirmities; if I may say it, romantic priests.
d30e4493 1690 T. Burnet Theory Earth II. 171 We must not imagine that the prophets..feigned an idea of a romantick state, that never was nor ever will be.
d30e4492 1660 Tatham Charac. Rump Dram. Wks. (1878) 290 Upon the onely security of Mr. Harrington's romantick Commonwealth.
d30e4486 1824 Dibdin Libr. Comp. 672 The notion of an early-printed edition of the Canterbury Tales, by Wynkyn de Worde, is purely romantic.