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parœmiac, a. (n.)|paˈriːmɪæk|
[ad. Gr. παροιµιακ-ός (in both senses), f. παροιµία: see prec.]
1. prop. Of the nature of a proverb, proverbial; in quot. = parabolic 1 (after παροιµία = παραβολή in St. John's Gospel).
1820A. Knox in Corr. w. Jebb (1834) II. 451 It is a transcendant piece of parœmiac composition.
2. Gr. Pros. Applied to a form of verse: see B.
1699Bentley Phal. 133 The Anapæst Feet run on to the Parœmiac, that is, to the end of the Sett, as if the whole had been a single Verse. 1778R. Lowth Prelim. Diss. Isaiah p. xxxii, Somewhat like the parœmiac verse of the Greeks.
B. n. Gr. Pros. That short line (anapæstic dimeter catalectic) with which an anapæstic system usually ends.
1803R. Porson Let. Dalzel in Mus. Crit. I. 334 The proportion of paroemiacs to other anapaests is scarcely one in ten. |