Meanings
- not comparableBritish standard spelling of anapestic.
1 more example
The public has referred the question to Time: the procedure of this great king I venture to describe, from precedents, by an adaptation of some smart anapaestic tetrameters--your anapaest is the foot for satire to halt on, both in Greek and English--which I read about twenty years ago, and with the point of which I was much tickled.
1872, Augustus de Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinanapaesticus
- Englishanapaestic
From Latin anapaesticus. By surface analysis, anapaest + -ic.
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