单词 | phaleuciac |
释义 | Phaleuciacn.adj. Classical Prosody. rare. A line, verse, etc., in Phaleucian metre. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > pentameter > Phaleucian Phaleucian1571 Phaleuciaca1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. sig. V6 [He] neuer left intreating her till she had (taking a Lyra Basilius helde for her) song these Phaleuciakes. a1681 W. Lilly Hist. Life & Times (1715) 6 All kinds of Verses, Hexameter, Pentameter, Phaleuciacks, Iambicks, Sapphicks, [etc.]. B. adj. = Phaleucian adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > pentameter > Phaleucian Phaleucian1571 Phaleuciac1611 Phaleucic1656 Phalaecean1861 1611 J. Hoskins in T. Coryate Crudities sig. e6 Encomiological Antispasticks consisting of Epitrits, the fourth in the first syzugie, which the vulgar call Phaleuciac hendecasyllables. 1948 D. L. Clark John Milton at St. Paul's School 135 The grammar explains the feet of classical metrics, with directions and diagrams for scanning the various types of verse, as heroic, elegiac, sapphic, phaleuciac, and iambic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1586 |
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