a. [ad. med.L. lombardicus, f. Lombardus LOMBARD sb.1: see -IC.]
Pertaining to Lombardy or the Lombards. Applied spec. to the style of architecture that prevailed in northern Italy from the 7th to the 13th century; to a type of handwriting common in Italian MSS. during the same period; and to the school of painters, represented esp. by Leonardo da Vinci, Mantegna, and Luini, which flourished at Milan and other Lombard cities during the 15th and 16th centuries.
1697. H. Wanley, in Aubrey, Lett. Eminent Persons (1813), I. 85. As to the Lombardic Character, we have not a book that I know of written in it, I mean agreeable to the specimens of it in Mabillon de re Diplomatica.
1784. Astle, Orig. Writing, v. 93. Specimen of Lombardic writing. Ibid. Written in Lombardic Uncials.
1832. G. Downes, Lett. Cont. Countries, I. 479. His [St. Anthony of Padua’s] church, which has six cupolas, is an admirable specimen of Lombardic architecture.
1859. J. Booker, Hist. Anc. Chapel Birch (Chetham Soc.), 208. Legend in Lombardic capitals.
1870. Ruskin, Lect. Art, vii. § clxxvii. 180. Correggio, uniting the sensual element of the Greek schools with their gloom, and their light with their beauty, and all these with the Lombardic colour, became … the captain of the painter’s art as such.
1879. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 76. The Lombardic Romanesque.
1901. Athenæum, 27 July, 131/3. The … paten … in addition to the leopard’s head crowned, bears a Lombardic S and a broad arrow.
b. absol. (quasi-sb.) Lombardic writing.
1893. E. M. Thompson, Gr. & Lat. Palæography, xvi. 221. The peculiar appearance which has gained for it the name of broken Lombardic.
