mimiambic

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adjective

Relating to mimiambs.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectivemimiambic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelating to mimiambs.
    1 more example

    Watson and others (Ingallina 1980: 357, Fedeli 1979: 95–6) are convincing in their observations of mimiambic elements in Epode 5, but this is not necessarily proof that the poem needs be wholly comic in tone—especially given the existence of characters who were, in Watson's own words, "coarsely erotic, violent, sadistic and murderous, ... creature[s] virtually devoid of conscience".

    2017, Maxwell Teitel Paule, Canidia, Rome’s First Witch
nounmimiambic (plural mimiambics)

plural mimiambics

  1. A work consisting of mimiambs.

Origin

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APA

mimiambic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimiambic

MLA

“mimiambic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimiambic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mimiambic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mimiambic.

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