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▪ I. Alexandrine, a.1 and n.1|ælɪgˈzɑːndrɪn, -æ-|
[a. Fr. alexandrin, the exact origin of which is disputed, some deriving it, according to Ménage, from the name of Alexandre Paris, an old French poet who used this verse, others from the fact that several poems on Alexander the Great were written in it by early poets (one by the said Alexandre Paris): see Littré.]
A. adj. Applied to a line of six feet or twelve syllables, which is the French heroic verse, and in English is used to vary the heroic verse of five feet.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (1869) 86 This meeter of twelue sillables the French man calleth a verse Alexandrine. 1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope I. 199 (T.) The harmony of his numbers, as far as Alexandrine lines will admit.
B. n. An Alexandrine line or verse.
1667Dryden Ann. Mirab. Pref., They write in Alexandrins or verses of six feet. 1709Pope Crit. 359 A needless Alexandrine ends the song That like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 1860All Y. Round No. 67, 392 Says Spenser, in one of his fine, drowsy, murmuring alexandrines.
▪ II. Alexandrine, a.2 and n.2|ælɪgˈzɑːndrɪn, -æ-, -aɪn|
[a. Fr. alexandrin, ad. L. alexandrīnus, f. Alexandrīa prop. name.]
A. adj.
a. Of or belonging to Alexandria; Also spec. = Alexandrian a.2 2, 3.
B. n.
a. A kind of embroidery named from that town.
b. = Alexandrian n.2 2, 3.
a1500MS. Rawlinson C. 86, 121 (Halliw.) A mauntelle of hermyn Coverid..with Alexandryn. 1605Timme Quersit. iii. 178 Take..of the treacle Alexandrine 2 ounces. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xli. 535 Plato and the Alexandrine philosophers. 1877Sellar Virgil 42 Yet even in him [sc. Horace] the influence of the Alexandrine tone is apparent, especially in his treatment of the subjects taken from the Greek mythology. 1893C. T. Cruttwell Lit. Hist. Early Christ. II. 442 The Alexandrine Fathers. 1904T. R. Glover Stud. Virgil 165 From Euripides and the Alexandrines the love motive found its way into Latin poetry. 1923J. B. Bury Hellen. Age i. 3 The Latin poets..owed more to..the Alexandrines.
Hence Aleˈxandrinism = Alexandrianism.
1880Cheyne Proph. Isaiah I. 238 Hence the Greek writer of Wisdom need not be credited with Alexandrinism. 1901J. C. Collins Ephem. Crit. 336 He [sc. Catullus] has not, indeed, escaped the taint of Alexandrinism. |