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Skeltonical, a.|skɛlˈtɒnɪkəl|
[f. the name Skelton (see def.) + -ical.]
Of verse: Pertaining to, or characteristic of, John Skelton (c 1460–1529); consisting of short irregular lines with frequent running on of the same rime.
1589in Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xxxiii, A Skeltonicall salutation..Of the Spanish nation. 1601Munday Downf. Earl of Hunt. iii. iii. I ij, You fall into your vaine, Of ribble rabble rimes, Skeltonicall. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 245 A Skeltonicall salutation to those that know how to reade. 1843Dyce in Skelton's Wks. I. p. cvii, Examples of the metre called Skeltonical. Ibid. p. cxxix, Which has some Skeltonical lines. Ibid., Various Skeltonical passages. 1873Morley Eng. Lit. (1886) 217 This form of verse, which has been called Skeltonical, appeared in the delicately playful Boke of Phyllyp Sparowe. |