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trochaic, a. and n. Pros.|trəʊˈkeɪɪk|
[a. F. trochaïque (c 1550 in Godef. Compl.), or ad. L. trochaic-us, ad. Gr. τροχαικός, f. τροχαῖος: see trochee.]
A. adj.
1. Of a verse, rhythm, etc.: Consisting of, characterized by, or based on trochees.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xiii. (Arb.) 136 Verses where the sharpe accent falles vpon the first and third, and so make the verse wholly Trochaicke. 1776Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) I. vi. 73 The dialogue admitted, occasionally, Trochaic verses. 1835T. Mitchell Acharn. Aristoph. 190 note, In the structure of the comic trochaic tetrameter catalectic, the nice points of tragic verse are freely neglected.
2. Of a foot, etc.: Of the nature of a trochee; consisting of a long (or an accented) followed by a short (or an unaccented) syllable.
trochaic spondee, a spondee having the accent or ictus upon the first syllable.
1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope II. 213 An intermixture of those different feet (iambic and trochaic particularly) into which our language naturally falls. 1827Tate Grk. Metres in Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) 426 In the two following lines will be found specimens of..the Trochaic Spondee in all its places. 1888H. W. Chandler Elem. Grk. Accentuation i. i. (ed. 2) 2 A word with a trochaic ending and accented penultimate must be properispome.
B. n. A trochaic verse or foot.
1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 44 One Poem consisted only of Hexameters; and another was entirely of Iambiques; a third of Trochaiques. 1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope (ed. 4) I. ii. 55 He conjures the powers below in beautiful trochaics. 1827Tate Grk. Metres in Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) 427 This nicety of structure in the long Trochaic of Tragedy.
Also troˈchaical a. rare (lit. and fig.); hence trochaiˈcality, trochaic character.
1755Johnson, Trochaical, consisting of trochees. 1910Sat. Rev. 18 June 791/1 A trochee of quite excessive trochaicality. 1930R. Campbell Poems 10 Jack Squire through his own teardrops sploshes In his great flat trochaical goloshes. |