iambicaladj.
rare or Obsolete.
= iambic adj.
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1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 87 Too my seeming..the Iambical quantitye relisheth soom what vnsauorlye in oure language.
1598 F. Meres Palladis Tamia 283 b Two Iambical Poets, Gabriel Haruey, and Richard Stanyhurst.
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iˈambically adv. ‘in the manner of an iambic’ (Worcester 1846, citing Chr. Observer).
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