Au-gŭs'tan, a.

a. [Lat. Augustanus, from Augustus. See supra.] Pertaining to Augustus or to his times; as, the Augustan age.

The Augustan age of any national literature is the supposed period of its highest state of purity and refinement. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne the Augustan age of English literature.—Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melancthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church. P. Cyc.