political versen.

Brit.

/pəˌlɪtᵻkl ˈvəːs/, U.S.

/pəˌlɪdᵻk(ə)l ˈvərs/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: political adj., verse n.

Etymology: < political adj. + verse n. In sense 2 after Byzantine Greek πολιτικὸς στίχος < ancient Greek πολιτικός politic adj., in Hellenistic Greek also secular (opposed to ecclesiastical or religious) + στίχος stich n. Compare post-classical Latin versus politici, plural (a1669).

1. A verse or poem having a political theme. In later use also as a mass noun: political or socially engaged poetry.

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1724 J. Oldmixon Crit. Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) 85 I my self paid a Visit once to a Verse-maker.., and saw 230 political Verses on his Table, which he told me he had written since Dinner.

1857 H. T. Tuckerman Biogr. Ess. 399 Compare his [sc. Addison's] hymns..with his frigid drama and his political verses.

1912 Times 26 Sept. 6/4 Has no Ulsterman a gift for political verse?

1991 Afr. Lang. & Cultures 4 26 One theme to be seen in the political verse of the earlier period is that the achievement of self-government in 1959..was due to the struggle and effort of the leaders of particular parties.

2. Prosody. A form of metre used in secular (as opposed to ecclesiastical) Byzantine Greek poetry; poetry written in this metre.The usual form in Byzantine Greek oral and ballad poetry, political verse has fifteen-syllable lines, usually consisting of two cola of 8 and 7 syllables with a caesura after the eighth syllable, each colon having one main accent.

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a1732 J. Ayliffe New Pandect Rom. Civil Law (1734) p. xxxvi About the same Time Mic. Psellus publish'd a Synopsis of Law in political Verse.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1828) VII. liii. 132 [Byzantine poets] confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses.

1881 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 2 505 The dreadful ‘political verse’ with which the Klephitic ballads have made us so familiar, and in which even at the present day most Greek poetry is written.

1957 W. Beare Lat. Verse 240 The [Greek] ‘political verse’ is a line of fifteen syllables, divided after the eighth syllable; there is usually an accent on the sixth or eighth and always on the fourteenth.

1991 Oxf. Dict. Byzantium III. 1694/2 Political verse first appears around the 6th C. as fragments within other varied verse forms... Political verse may perhaps have won entry to the court by its similarity to the traditional verse of the Roman triumph.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	political verse
释义	political versen. Brit. /pəˌlɪtᵻkl ˈvəːs/, U.S. /pəˌlɪdᵻk(ə)l ˈvərs/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: political adj., verse n. Etymology: < political adj. + verse n. In sense 2 after Byzantine Greek πολιτικὸς στίχος < ancient Greek πολιτικός politic adj., in Hellenistic Greek also secular (opposed to ecclesiastical or religious) + στίχος stich n. Compare post-classical Latin versus politici, plural (a1669). 1. A verse or poem having a political theme. In later use also as a mass noun: political or socially engaged poetry. ΚΠ 1724 J. Oldmixon Crit. Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) 85 I my self paid a Visit once to a Verse-maker.., and saw 230 political Verses on his Table, which he told me he had written since Dinner. 1857 H. T. Tuckerman Biogr. Ess. 399 Compare his [sc. Addison's] hymns..with his frigid drama and his political verses. 1912 Times 26 Sept. 6/4 Has no Ulsterman a gift for political verse? 1991 Afr. Lang. & Cultures 4 26 One theme to be seen in the political verse of the earlier period is that the achievement of self-government in 1959..was due to the struggle and effort of the leaders of particular parties. 2. Prosody. A form of metre used in secular (as opposed to ecclesiastical) Byzantine Greek poetry; poetry written in this metre.The usual form in Byzantine Greek oral and ballad poetry, political verse has fifteen-syllable lines, usually consisting of two cola of 8 and 7 syllables with a caesura after the eighth syllable, each colon having one main accent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > [noun] > accentual verse > types of political versea1732 Saturnian1848 a1732 J. Ayliffe New Pandect Rom. Civil Law (1734) p. xxxvi About the same Time Mic. Psellus publish'd a Synopsis of Law in political Verse. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1828) VII. liii. 132 [Byzantine poets] confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. 1881 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 2 505 The dreadful ‘political verse’ with which the Klephitic ballads have made us so familiar, and in which even at the present day most Greek poetry is written. 1957 W. Beare Lat. Verse 240 The [Greek] ‘political verse’ is a line of fifteen syllables, divided after the eighth syllable; there is usually an accent on the sixth or eighth and always on the fourteenth. 1991 Oxf. Dict. Byzantium III. 1694/2 Political verse first appears around the 6th C. as fragments within other varied verse forms... Political verse may perhaps have won entry to the court by its similarity to the traditional verse of the Roman triumph. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1724
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