goliardic adjective2 •Of or pertaining to Goliards, wandering medieval students who earned money by singing and reciting poetry.Many poems in the collection known as Carmina Burana, are believed to be of goliardic origin. — 1999 •Of or pertaining to a form of medieval lyric poetry that typically celebrated licentiousness and drinking.This basic structure was used as long as the medieval Latin lyric flourished; the goliardic poems of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries still retain it. — 1961