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.
d30e4485 1728 Morgan Algiers I. 62 Nicephorus relates that..S. Peter preached the Gospel in Mauritania: But this is looked upon to be intirely romantick.
d30e4484 1673Vain Insolency Rome 36, I marvel (though you read this, and much more as Romantick in the Popes Letters) that you can credit all this done by a person, about an hundred years since.
d30e4478 1981 S. Radley Chief Inspector's Daughter i. 15, I get depressed because I write romantic fiction instead of straight novels.