Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HE-RO'IC, a.

1. Pertaining to a hero or heroes; as, heroic valor.
2. Becoming a hero; bold; daring; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
3. Brave; intrepid; magnanimous; enterprising; illustrious for valor; as, Hector, the heroic son of Priam; a heroic race.
4. Productive of heroes; as, a heroic line in pedigree.
5. Reciting the achievements of heroes; as, a heroic poem.
6. Used in heroic poetry or hexameter; as, heroic verse; a heroic foot. Heroic age, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived.