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proceleusmatic, a. (n.)|prɒsɪljuːsˈmætɪk|
[ad. late L. proceleusmatic-us, a. Gr. προκελευσµατικός, f. προκέλευσµα incitement, f. προκελεύειν to rouse to action beforehand.]
1. Serving for incitement; animating, inspiriting.
1773Johnson West. Isl., Raasay, The ancient proceleusmatick song by which the rowers of galleys were animated. 1818C. Mills Crusades (1822) I. 55 note, In an army..there were as many proceleusmatick words as there were banners. 1866Engel Nat. Mus. iii. 115 The oar-song of the Hebridians, which resembles the proceleusmatic verse by which the rowers of Grecian galleys were animated.
2. Pros.
a. adj. Epithet of a metrical foot of four short syllables; pertaining to or consisting of such feet.
b. n. A proceleusmatic foot.
[1706Phillips, Proceleusmaticus Pes, (in Grammar) a Foot consisting of four short Syllables; as Pelagius.] 1751Wesley Wks. (1872) XIV. 74 A Proceleusmatic, which is four short. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages ix. (1868) 589 The proceleusmatic foot, or four short syllables, instead of the dactyl. 1837C. P. Brown Sanscrit Prosody 13 One long being equal to two shorts, the admissible feet are the spondee, dactyl, amphibrach, anapæst and proceleusmatic. 1900H. W. Smyth Gk. Melic Poets 344 Mar[ius] Vic[torinus] says that proceleusmatics were used in Satyric plays, whereas they are alien to sober compositions in anapaests. |