Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RO-MANCE, v.i. [romans', ro'mans.]

To forge and tell fictitious stories; to deal in extravagant stories. – Richardson.

RO-MAN'CER, or RO'MAN-CER, n.

1. One who invents fictitious stories. – L'Estrange.
2. A writer of romance. – Aubrey.

RO-MAN'CING, or RO'MAN-CING, ppr.

Inventing and telling fictitious tales; building castles in the air.

RO-MAN'CY, a.

Romantic. [Not proper.]

RO-MAN-ESQUE, n.¹ [romanesk'.]

In painting, that which appertains to romance or rather to fable, as it refers objects of fancy. – Elmes.

RO-MAN-ESQUE', n.² [romanesk.]

The common dialect in some of the southern districts of France, and remains of the old Romance language.

RO'MAN-ISM, n.

The tenets of the church of Rome. – Brevint.

RO'MAN-IST, n.

An adherent to the papal religion; a Roman catholic. – Encyc.

RO'MAN-IZE, v.i.

To conform to Romish opinions, customs or modes of speech.

RO'MAN-IZE, v.t.

1. To latinize; to fill with Latin words or modes of speech. – Dryden.
2. To convert to the Roman religion, or to papistical opinions.

RO'MAN-IZ-ED, pp.

Latinized.

RO'MAN-IZ-ING, ppr.

Latinizing.

RO-MANSH', n.

The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.

RO-MAN'TIC, a.

1. Pertaining to romance or resembling it; wild; fanciful; extravagant; as, a romantic taste; romantic notions; romantic expectations; romantic zeal.
2. Improbable or chimerical; fictitious; as, a romantic tale.
3. Fanciful; wild; full of wild or fantastic scenery; as, a romantic prospect or landscape; a romantic situation.

RO-MAN'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

Wildly; extravagantly. – Pope.

RO-MAN'TI-CISM, n.

The state of being romantic or fantastic; applied chiefly to the unnatural productions of the modern French school of novelists.

RO-MAN'TIC-NESS, n.

1. Wildness; extravagance; fancifulness.
2. Wildness of scenery.

RO-MAN'ZO-VITE, n.

A recently discovered mineral of the garnet kind, of a brown or brownish yellow color; named from Count Romanzoff. – Cleaveland.

ROME'PEN-NY, or ROME'SCOT, n. [Rome, and Sax. pennig or sceat.]

A tax of a penny on a house, formerly paid by the people of England to the church of Rome.

ROM-ISH, a. [from Rome.]

Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the religion professed by the people of Rome and of the western empire, of which Rome was the metropolis; catholic; popish; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual or ceremonies.

ROM-IST, n.

A papist. – South.

ROMP, n. [a different spelling of ramp; W. rham, a rising over; rhamu, to reach over, to soar, to vault. See Ramp and Romance.]

1. A rude girl who indulges in boisterous play. – Addison.
2. Rude play or frolick. Romp loving miss / Is haul'd about in gallantry robust. – Thomson.

ROMP, v.i.

To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play. – Richardson.

ROMP'ING, ppr.

Playing rudely; as a noun, rude boisterous play.

ROMP'ISH, a.

Given to rude play; inclined to romp. – Ash.