a. [ad. L. æolic-us a. Gr. αἰολικός.] = ÆOLIAN 1. Æolic Digamma: the sixth letter of the early Greek Alphabet preserved in the Æolic dialect. Æolic mode; see ÆOLIAN 1.
1674. Playford, Skill of Mus., I. 59. The Æolick Mood, was that which was of a more Airy and soft pleasing sound.
1807. Robinson, Archæol. Græca, V. xxiii. 534. The Phrygian mode was religious … the Æolic, simple.
