Meanings
nounanapæst (plural anapæsts)
plural anapæsts
- archaicArchaic form of anapest.
The situations of imaginary glory which he draws for himself, are the detection of an anapæst in the wrong place, or the restoration of a dative case which Cranzius had passed over and the never-dying Ernesti failed to observe.
1885, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, page 174 (J.B. Alden)
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with anapæst
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